Boat Quay

Boat Quay is a historic harbor in Singapore, located upstream from the mouth of the Singapore River on its south bank. Boat Quay stretches from the shops near UOB Plaza, along a Singapore riverbank, all the way to Elgin Bridge.

This is the busiest part of the old Port of Singapore, handling three-quarters of the shipping business in the 1860s. Because the south side of the river here resembles the belly of a carp, which according to belief Chinese belief is a place of wealth and prosperity, many shops are built, crowded in the area.

The Singapore government cleaned up the river in 1983 and moved the remaining foundations of the shipping industry to a new harbor near Pasir Panjang. As a result, Boat Quay was abandoned and unused from 1983 to 1989. In 1986, the Urban Redevelopment Authority announced a plan to preserve Boat Quay as part of a master plan for conservation. the entire Singapore River and surrounding areas. On 7 July 1989, an area including South Bridge Road, Circular Road, Lorong Telok Road and North Kenh Road was announced. When the area became a conservation area in 1989, redevelopment began and by 1993 all the historic shops had been rebuilt.

< p>Although serving the seafood trade is no longer the main role of Boat Quay, the shops on it have been carefully preserved and are now filled with bars, pubs and restaurants. As a result, Boat Quay's socio-economic role in the city has shifted from a maritime commercial and commercial role, and is now tilted towards a role of tourism and aesthetics for the commercial area surrounding the River. Singapore more. This is the soft front for the international banking and financial sectors that lie directly behind it.

Boat Quay is also the name of the street along the harbour, which was later converted into pedestrian shopping mall.