Maritime Transportation Construction in the Port of Kowloon and Macau

The Outer Harbor and

The Outer Harbor is located on the eastern side of the Macau Peninsula and is reserved for the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers on regular passenger ships to and from Hong Kong. The channel width of the Outer Harbour is 120 meters and its charted depth is maintained at 4.4 meters. In 2007, about 8.98 million people entered Hong Kong by sea, accounting for about 33% of the total number of arrivals. In 1998, about 67% of the arrivals entered Hong Kong by sea.

The Inner Harbour, located on the western side of the Macau Peninsula, consists of 34 wharves where the loading and unloading of cargoes takes place, with Pier 14 in the Inner Harbour being used only by vessels authorized by the Port Authority. The South Sampan Pier is located between Piers 8 and 9 of the Inner Harbour and is used for embarkation and disembarkation of persons on board ships anchored in the Inner Harbour. Both the Inner Harbour Approach and the Inner Harbour Channel are 55 meters wide and both maintain a charted depth of 3.5 meters.

Maritime transportation In the case of Macau, maritime transportation is an important means of external transportation. More than 400 years ago, Macau was an excellent port and the first port in China to be opened to the outside world, and was once famous for its sailing ship manufacturing industry. Especially after the Opium War, large ocean liners gradually replaced the small and medium-sized man-powered sailing ships, and the opening of the neighboring port of Hong Kong made Macao's shipping dependent on Hong Kong, resulting in the vast majority of Macao's overseas transportation through Hong Kong, and making Macao's waterborne passenger and cargo transportation with Hong Kong a very well-developed business.

The sea passenger service between Macau and Kaohsiung, Taiwan, began to operate. The direct sea voyage between Taiwan and Macau has opened up another convenient way for Taiwanese visiting relatives in the mainland, in addition to allowing residents of the two places to further carry out cultural and commercial exchanges.

The river transportation between Macao and the mainland, especially the Pearl River Delta region, began to be busy after the close economic ties between the two places in the 1980s. The passenger and cargo transportation routes from Macao to Guangzhou and Jiangmen were opened one after another, and the ferry traffic between Macao and Zhuhai was resumed, which could run regularly every day, and the frequency was increased in case of holidays; this greatly promoted the development of its water transportation.

Macao ←→ Hong Kong

Although Macao is located 60 kilometers west of Hong Kong, separated by the Pearl River, it takes only one hour to travel between Hong Kong and Macao by boat, and the transportation is very convenient. There are two ferry terminals in Hong Kong that provide shipping services to Macau, one of which is located inside Shun Tak Center in Sheung Wan, and the other is the China Ferry Terminal (CFT), which is located in Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. The Macau Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal is located in the outer harbor of the Macau Peninsula, close to the New Yaohan department store.

Macao ←→ Shenzhen

Vessels run daily between Macao and Shekou in Shenzhen. The embarkation point for Macau is at Pier 14. The voyage takes about one hour and twenty minutes. Departure times for Macau are 10:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., while departure times for Shekou in Shenzhen are 8:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m.

There are also daily jet flights between Macau and Fuyong in Shenzhen, with boarding in Macau taking place at the New Hong Kong-Macao Ferry Terminal, and the voyage lasts about an hour. There are seven flights a day between the two places, with Macau departing at 10:45 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 6:45 p.m., and Shenzhen departing at 10:30 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 5:15 p.m.