The second ferry terminal opened on Taipa 氹仔北安臨時客運碼頭落成 (氹仔北安临时客运码头落成)

Macau’s second ferry terminal was opened Tuesday. The new terminal on Taipa is being built to receive boats with up to 1,200 passengers and the existing facility can deal with boats with capacity for up to 400 people. Currently there aren't any jets coming into operation yet. There are two companies to operate in this new Taipa ferry terminal, Dragão Gigante Transportes Marítimos, a Hong Kong-Macau consortium and Cotai Water Jets Macau, part-owned by the Las Vegas Sands casino group. This new terminal was built because due to the sharp increase in visitors and congestion at the existing terminal.

This new ferry terminal will be fully operational in 2009 and location of this terminal is close to the Macau’s international airport, next to the famous Cotai Strip.

According to Macauhub, the total visitor numbers arriving by sea in the first eight months of 2007 reach 5.754 million, up 14.6 percent in a year-on-year comparison. A total of 318,826 visitors arrived at Macau’s interior port, 53.7 percent of these from mainland China.

於2007年10月16日落成啟用的「北安臨時客運碼頭」主要是為了滿足路氹城的旅遊發展需要和考慮到外港客運碼頭的承接能力已經飽和。臨時碼頭的某些設施，日後將成為氹仔（北安）客運碼頭的永久利用部分。當中部份「北安臨時碼頭」設施將繼續用於2009年落成的北安客運碼頭。

北安臨時客運碼頭設有一座出入境大廳，出入境檢查櫃位各二十個，可容納同時一千二百人出入境三個泊位，兩個四百人客船泊位和一個一千二百人的客船泊位。

客運碼頭位於澳門氹仔北安新填海區, 預計整體工程於2009年竣工。總造價兩億一千八百萬元。北安客運碼頭提供來往澳門至香港、珠三角地區之高速客輪服務。