Fullers Ferries

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The MV Quick Cat, deployed on the Waiheke Island service.
The MV Quick Cat, deployed on the Waiheke Island service.

Fullers Ferries is a ferry company owned by the Fullers Group[1] in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2007, Fullers carried around 4.2 million passengers, on a total of 42,010 sailings (an average of almost 100 passengers per journey).[2][3] For the transport, it received subsidies of around 84c per passenger and journey, half the subsidy of Brisbane ferry operators and only a seventh of the subsidies paid for ferry public transport in Sydney.[2]

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[edit] Services

Fullers run ferries from the Downtown Ferry Terminal in Quay Street, Downtown Auckland. Fullers operate to the North Shore suburbs of Devonport, Bayswater, Birkenhead, Northcote and Stanley Bay, as well as Half Moon Bay near the eastern suburb of Howick.

They also operate tourism / excursion ferry services to the Hauraki Gulf Islands of Rangitoto, Waiheke, and Great Barrier Island (seasonal). Services to Rangitoto are via Devonport, and Fullers also operate a Half Moon Bay - Waiheke service. For the tourism services, two new catameran ferries were recently (2006 and 2007) purchased for NZ$ 3 million and NZ$ 2 million, the Adventurer and Wanderer. These vessels will also assist on the company's main ferry routes during peak hours.[1]

[edit] Vessels

  • Adventurer - Catamaran
  • Harbour Cat - Catamaran - Originally Pakatoa Cat
  • JetRaider - Mono-Hull - Built 1990
  • Quickcat - Catamaran - Built 1987 - dedicated to the Auckland - Waiheke service
  • Quickcat II - Catamaran - Built 1993
  • Seaflyte - Catamaran - Built 1993
  • Seabus Kea - Catamaran - Built 1988 - a longitudinally symmetrical ferry used on the Auckland CBD-Devonport
  • Starflyte - Catamaran - Built 1999
  • Superflyte - Catamaran - Built 1995 - Operates Waiheke and Great Barrier services
  • Tiger Cat - Catamaran
  • Wanderer - Catameran

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b $2m cat for Birkenhead commuters - The New Zealand Herald, Tuesday 30 October 2007, Page A8
  2. ^ a b Fullers floats ferry services as solution to traffic woes - The New Zealand Herald, Thursday 28 February 2008
  3. ^ Fullers Today (from the official company website)

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