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Star Ferry

The Star Ferry Company
Company typeFerry services across Victoria Harbour
Founded1888 (1888)
FounderDorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala
HeadquartersHong Kong
RevenueHK$72 million (2006)
OwnerWharf REIC (100%)
ParentWharf REIC
Websitewww.starferry.com.hk
Star Ferry
The ferry Meridian Star
Traditional Chinese天星小輪
Star Ferry routes as of 2010
A Star Ferry in the 1920s
A Star Ferry in Asia's World City livery carries passengers across Victoria Harbour
A man at the front of a large boat throws a rope to another man on a nearby pier wearing a blue sailor uniform who is holding a long pole with a hook at the rear to catch it
Crew using billhook to moor ferry at Central pier, a method in use since the 19th century
Star Ferry Night Star

The Star Ferry (Chinese: 天星小輪) is a passenger ferry service operator and tourist attraction in Hong Kong.[1] Its principal routes carry passengers across Victoria Harbour, between Hong Kong Island, and Kowloon. The service is operated by the Star Ferry Company, which was founded in 1888 as the Kowloon Ferry Company, and adopted its present name in 1898.

With a fleet of twelve ferries, the company operates two routes across the harbour, carrying over 70,000 passengers per day, or 26 million per year. Even though the harbour is crossed by railway and road tunnels, the Star Ferry continues to provide a scenic yet inexpensive mode of harbour crossing. The company's main route runs between Central and Tsim Sha Tsui.

  1. ^ DeWolf, Christopher "9 Hong Kong tourist traps – for better or worse" CNN Go. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2012
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