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PASSENGER TRANSPORT SERVICES
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A.
Hong Kong
Xiamen
Ferry services between Hong Kong and Xiamen () in Fujian province have been augmented as a vessel named JIMEI () was put into operation on January 27, 1981 in addition to the GULANGYU (), which has been plying between the two places for months.
Yick Fung Shipping and Enterprises Company Limited(盆豐船務企業有限公司) is the Hong Kong agent for the two vessels. Its spokesman said the additional vessel was bought at $10 million and that another $250 000 would be spent on its renovation.
JIMEI, which measures 130 metres long and 17 metres wide, can carry up to 704 passengers at present. After minor modifications scheduled to be carried out in March this year, its capacity will rise to nearly 800.
The vessel which has a maximum speed of 21 knots per hour, takes only 19 hours to cover the journey to Xiamen.
B.
Hong Kong Macau/Jaingmen/Shiaoqing/Shiqi
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Ferry services between China, Macau and Hong Kong will be improved over the next two years under a package of proposals by the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company, it was reported on February 4, 1981.
The company's general manager, Mr. Edmund Lau, said now that Macau had become one of the stop-over points between Hong Kong and China, the company would start providing ferry services between Macua and Hong Kong at the end of next year.
This additional ferry service will aim to carry a maximum of 4 000 passengers a day at a frequency of about one trip an hour.
Three hoverferries the largest of their kind
Worth $20 million each, they ahve a capacity of 200.
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will be deployed on the route.
A new pier in Macau adjacent to the present ferry terminal will be built. On direct services to China, the company has signed an agreement with the Guangdong Marine Bureau (
) to start three services between Hong
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Kong and various places in Guangdong.
The first will be a service between Jiangmen (L) and Hong Kong, which will begin before October this year. The Chinese authorities will use a conventional fast ferry while the HYF will deploy a hoverferry.
To start with, there will be two round trips every day carrying 400 passengers. The second ferry service, which will start next spring, will run between Hong Kong and shiaoqing(). The Chinese authroities will provide a conventional ferry to run trips every other day.
HYF will run a cruise ship up the Pearl River to Shiaoqing(), at the end of 1982. This service, with a capacity of 176 passengers, aims
to provide a package tour once a week.
The Chinese authorities will also run a ferry service between Shiqi ()
and Hong Kong by 1982 with the assistance of HYF.
It is reliably learnt that both sides are also discussing plans to open
three more routes to Hainan Dao(), Zhanjiang (I) and Shanmei
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