Hong Kong Operations

Ports Related Services | Shipping Related Services

Ports Related Services

Hongkong International Terminals (HIT)
HIT, situated in Kwai Tsing Container Port, is the flagship company of the HPH Group. HIT is the largest container terminal operator in one of the world's busiest ports with 12 berths at Terminals 4, 6, 7 and 9.

COSCO-HIT Terminals (CHT)
CHT, a 50-50 joint-venture between HIT and COSCO Pacific, operates 2 berths at Terminal 8 (East) at the Kwai Tsing Container Port.

River Trade Terminal (RTT)
RTT handles and consolidates container and break-bulk cargo originating from southern China river ports prior to dispatch to Kwai Tsing.

Asia Port Services (APS)
APS provides container-handling services at buoys in mid-harbour using lighters equipped with derricks. APS also offers empty container storage, container repair and feeder services between ports in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta in southern China.

SupplyLINE
SupplyLINE is a leading provider of supply chain and logistics solutions, providing collaborative networks and visibility services globally. SupplyLINE's services are designed to streamline and optimise the flow of goods throughout the supply chain, thus increasing efficiency and delivering significant savings in time and cost.

Shipping Related Services

The Group owns the HUD Group jointly with Swire Pacific. The HUD Group is engaged in towage and salvage services, ship repair, mechanical, electrical and engineering contracting services.

HUD Ship Repair

The HUD Ship Repair dockyard is one of Asia's most modern facilities, with large steel fabrication and heavy engineering workshops and sea walls that can accommodate vessels with a draft of up to 12.5 metres.

HUD Ship Repair's floating dock United, built in 1995, has a post-Panamax beam and a lifting capacity of 40,000 tonnes, enabling the ship repair division to undertake dry-docking, maintenance, repair and survey on all types and sizes of vessel calling at Hong Kong. Equipped with travelling cranes of up to 70 tonnes lifting capacity and other advanced ship repair infrastructure, the dock has direct access to shore and to the yard's extensive workshop facilities. The division's harbour repair department also offers round-the-clock routine and emergency repairs and maintenance to all types of vessels afloat at berths, at buoys or at anchor.

HUD Marine

Trading as Hongkong Salvage & Towage, HUD's Marine Division operates Hong Kong's largest and most modern tug fleet and has the distinction of being the only Hong Kong member of the International Salvage Union.

HUD Marine owns and operates 15 tugs totalling 55,200 BHP, and with an average age of just under seven years. HUD Marine's largest ocean-going tugs provide up to 56 tonnes bollard pull and are fully equipped for salvage and fire-fighting duties.

Services include 24-hour harbour berthing, ocean towage and worldwide chartering in the Asia Pacific Region and the Arabian Gulf on both short and long-term contracts, as well as harbour deployments.

HUD Marine has designed and now operates six specialist container vessels managed on behalf of Swire SITA, in support of a 15-year Government waste-disposal contract. The company has also established an excellent reputation as a new building design and project management specialist, completing projects for a number of overseas clients. HUD Marine has also developed solutions for floating waste collection and oil recovery and clean-up.

HUD Engineering

Land-based mechanical and electrical engineering services and steelwork from HUD Engineering complement the group's marine engineering expertise. Services range from plant installation for chemical and process plants, power stations and railways, to the fabrication and erection of steel structures and heavy industrial equipment.

HUD Engineering is also a leading repair centre for electrical motors, generators and transformers.

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