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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.

Victoria Harbour which is the body of water between HK island and Kowloon isn’t very deep. Half if it is filled in too. So yes, big ships don’t go through there.

I don’t know much about shipping but HK harbour out by Lantau appears to be deep enough. That’s where our carriers stop.