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Kai Tak Cruise Terminal celebrates a year of milestones in 2018

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Kai Tak Cruise Terminal (KTCT), operated and managed by Worldwide Cruise Terminals (WCT) achieved a year of significant milestones in 2018, as it marked its fifth year in operation in June 2018, and celebrated the arrival of KTCT’s two millionth passenger on September 23, 2018.

WCT achieved a record-setting month for six inaugural calls (out of 22 ship calls) in the month of March 2018, and marked another new local record-setting highest throughput day of 15,307 revenue passengers on June 15, 2018 when the terminal played host to two mega cruise ships, leapfrogging the last record-setting highest throughput day of 13,327 itinerary cruise passengers on October 29, 2017.

Two millionth passenger

WCT celebrated the arrival of its two millionth cruise ship passenger in September during World Dream’s turn call.

Jeff Bent, managing director of WCT, said ‘The arrival of our two millionth cruise passenger so soon after our first millionth passenger in June 2017 is further validation of the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal’s success since its inception in 2013. We are glad to see the cruise lines’ business growing strongly and look forward to receiving our three millionth guest in the near future.’

2019 Outlook

2019 promises to be another bright year ahead as both newly inaugurated transportation facilities, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the high-speed rail service to mainland China, begin to gain momentum.

The former will make Macao and Guangdong more accessible for shore excursions, and bring most western Pearl River Delta source markets within a two-hour drive.

The latter will bring 270m people within a 4-hour train ride of Hong Kong, vastly enlarging Hong Kong’s catchment area and addressable source market.