Sha Tau Kok Public Pier or Sha Tau Kok Pier is a public pier

Pier

A pier is a raised structure, including bridge and building supports and walkways, over water, typically supported by widely spread piles or pillars...

 in Sha Tau Kok

Sha Tau Kok

Sha Tau Kok or Shataukok or Sathewkok is a town in the northeastern corner of Hong Kong. Located on the border with mainland China, there is another town of same Chinese name, Shatoujiao, romanized using Hanyu Pinyin, across the Sham Chun River-defined border in Shenzhen of mainland...

, New Territories

New Territories

New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory. Historically, it is the region described in The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory...

, Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

. It is located at the easternmost of the land boundary

Border

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 between Hong Kong and Shenzhen

Shenzhen

Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones...

 and lies to the west of the former Sha Tau Kwok Public Pier.

The pier is used for loading and unloading goods and berthing of kaitos operating between Sha Tau Kwok and Kat O

Kat O

Kat O or Crooked Island is an island of Hong Kong located in the north-east of the territory. Administratively, it is part of North District.-Geography:...

, Sam A

Sam A

Sam A village in the northeastern New Territories of Hong Kong is named after the idyllic bay of Sam A Wan .In its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, there were more than 200 residents here, but at the end of the 1960s most of the men left the village to seek employment in the United Kingdom and the...

 and other northeast rural

Rural

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areas. The former pier was built in 1960s, but it was replaced by the newer one in 2007.