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One of the biggest in the world. HK is not just the island. It handles the largest container ships in the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Hong_Kong

You said: " It’s also the biggest deep water port outside of HK that is on China’s doorstep."

I took that to mean that it's one of the deepest deep water ports, not the busiest. I would agree with you that it's a huge port and one of the busiest also. Someone once told me that the sea lane between Singapore and Hong Kong is one of the busiest in the world and I can believe that.

However, even though it's obviously a deep water port as far as that goes it's not that deep. At least where I was. All of the big ships have to anchor out in the harbor. We did and I don't consider an LPH to be that deep of a drought. No Aircraft carriers can get in there. Are those container ships flat bottomed? I do remember that they have floating dry docks there as well. I think the ones we had in Subic are now in Sasebo.