Western District Public Cargo Working Area, pier in Hong Kong

Western District Public Cargo Working Area is a pier in Hong Kong's port zone where ships dock daily to load and unload cargo. The site stretches along the waterfront with stacked containers, large cranes, and docked vessels that demonstrate the constant movement of goods in and out of the city.

Plans for a public cargo working area in the Western District were announced in December 1977, and the facility opened in April 1981. In 2010 its area was reduced to 3.27 hectares and 880 metres for the MTR West Island line works. From the 1990s residents used it for recreation, and in 2013 it won an Outstanding Public Space election despite not being officially open to the public.

The pier is a working cargo area, not an open public space: since 1 March 2021 the Marine Department has barred the public and only staff may enter, so it cannot be visited. The adjacent Belcher Bay Promenade, opened in October 2020, is the accessible waterfront nearby. The site covers 3.27 hectares along 880 metres of Sai Wan shoreline.

In 2013 the pier won the Outstanding Public Space Elections, organised by Designing Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Public Space Initiative, with the highest number of votes cast. It is nonetheless not a public place: the Marine Department posts notices at the gate stating that only people engaged in loading and unloading may enter.