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Hong Kong & Kowloon Ferry Ltd (HKKF) is a ferry service company in Hong Kong. It was formed by a number of shipping and shipbuilding firms, and was incorporated in Hong Kong in February 1998. HKKF currently provides 3 licensed scheduled passenger ferry routes to the Outlying Islands of the city.
At the turn of the century, Hong Kong currency and Canton currency were both accepted as legal tender in Hong Kong. In the autumn of 1912, following a devaluation, the Star Ferry caused a controversy by insisting, together with the tramways, that payment had to be made in Hong Kong currency only. Canton coinage would no longer be accepted.
Terms include free port (porto Franco), free zone (zona franca), bonded area (US: foreign-trade zone), free economic zone, free-trade zone, export processing zone and maquiladora. Most commonly a free port is a special customs area or small customs territory with generally less strict customs regulations (or no customs duties or controls for ...
HSC Villum Clausen On the way from the shipyard of Austal in Australia to Rønne in Denmark the ferry had a top speed of 47.7 knots and an average of 43.4 knots, and on February 16 and 17, 2000 it had reached 1,063 sea miles within 24 hours, thereby setting the world record which was then written in the Guinness Book of Records.
Hong Kong Tramways (exits B, C, G and K) Peak Tram (exit J2) Ferries (exit A to Central Ferry Piers) Pier 2: Park Island Ferry, to Park Island; Pier 3: Discovery Bay Ferry, to Discovery Bay; Pier 4: Hong Kong & Kowloon Ferry, to Sok Kwu Wan and Yung Shue Wan on Lamma Island; Piers 5 and 6: Sun Ferry, to Silvermine Bay , Peng Chau and Cheung Chau
It was a local ferry pier called Chek Lap Kok Ferry Pier (赤鱲角渡輪碼頭).It provided a ferry route to Tuen Mun, operated by New World First Ferry.However, the route was cancelled and replaced by another route between Tuen Mun and Tung Chung New Development Ferry Pier in 2002, because the Hong Kong Airport Authority took back the pier for its own development.
A ferry from Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company. Hong Kong Ferry (Holdings) Company Limited (SEHK: 50) is a holding company in Hong Kong involved in property development, ferry, shipyard, travel and hotel operations. It operated franchised ferry services in Hong Kong until 2000, when its ferry licence was transferred to New World First Ferry.
Sun Ferry Services Company Limited, more widely known as Sun Ferry (Chinese: 新渡輪) and formerly New World First Ferry Services Limited (in short New World First Ferry, First Ferry or NWFF), is a ferry service company in Hong Kong.