Container Terminal 9

Container Terminal 9 or CT9 (Chinese: 九號貨櫃碼頭) is the 9th container terminal in Hong Kong. It is located on Tsing Yi Island, facing Rambler Channel. It is part of the Kwai Tsing Container Terminals. The total site area is 1.5 square kilometres and the terminal itself comprises an area 0.68 km² and as long as 1.9 kilometres. The rest of land is for logistics and storage. When the terminal was built the sea bed was dredged (dug deeper) to accommodate the largest container vessels.

CT9 has 6 berths and a capacity of 3 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). The terminal was developed by 3 operators; Modern Terminals Ltd. (MTL), Hongkong International Terminals Ltd. (HIT), and Asia Container Terminals Limited (ACT). ACT got two berths from MTL for two berths in exchange for contribution in CT9. Currently, HIT has 2 berths in CT9 and MTL owns the remaining 4. The berths were to be completed by the year 2005.

There was a long dispute over the building of CT9 between the PRC and the United Kingdom beginning in November 1992. Hong Kong Government purposely diversified the number of providers of port services awarding project through a directed tender and Sea-Land consortium got the project. However, PRC insisted the tender must be open and competitive bid. The PRC alleged the results were in favour of British interests. The British company Jardine Matheson, a company with its listing and incorporation withdrawn from Hong Kong in the 1980s, participated in the consortium. The project was delayed until the Joint Liaison Group meeting of the UK and PRC in September 1996. Jardine Matheson was willing to be withdrawn from the project in acquiring two existing berths.

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