Tsim Sha Tsui East Ferry Pier

Last updated March 22, 2019

Tsim Sha Tsui East Ferry Pier (Chinese :尖沙咀東碼頭) was a ferry pier in Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon. The pier was firstly located outside Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel (Chinese :九龍香格里拉酒店) but moved to outside Grand Stanford InterContinental Hong Kong (Chinese :海景嘉福酒店) after 2000. It was closed and demolished in 2008.^[1]^[2]

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases not mutually intelligible, language varieties, forming the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the Han majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. About 1.2 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their first language.

A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi.

A pier is a raised structure in a body of water, typically supported by well-spaced piles or pillars. Bridges, buildings, and walkways may all be supported by piers. Their open structure allows tides and currents to flow relatively unhindered, whereas the more solid foundations of a quay or the closely spaced piles of a wharf can act as a breakwater, and are consequently more liable to silting. Piers can range in size and complexity from a simple lightweight wooden structure to major structures extended over 1600 metres. In American English, a pier may be synonymous with a dock.∴Piers have been built for several purposes, and because these different purposes have distinct regional variances, the term pier tends to have different nuances of meaning in different parts of the world. Thus in North America and Australia, where many ports were, until recently, built on the multiple pier model, the term tends to imply a current or former cargo-handling facility. In Europe in contrast, where ports more often use basins and river-side quays than piers, the term is principally associated with the image of a Victorian cast iron pleasure pier. However, the earliest piers pre-date the Victorian age.

Ferry service

1986-1999
- Tsim Sha Tsui East - Blake Pier / City Hall Ferry Pier (operated by Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry)
1999-2005
- Tsim Sha Tsui East - Central Piers (operated by Discovery Bay Transportation Services)^[3]
Discovery Bay Transportation Services Ltd (愉景灣航運服務有限公司) is a transport company which provides ferry and bus services to Discovery Bay on Lantau Island. It is subsidiary of the HKR International group.
2006-2008
- Tsim Sha Tsui East - City Hall Ferry Pier / Central Piers (operated by Hoi You Ferry)^[4]

The Blake Pier was a ferry pier in Central, Hong Kong. It was named after Sir Henry Arthur Blake, the twelfth governor of Hong Kong.

City Hall Ferry Pier was a barge pier at the east of ex-Queen's Pier outside Hong Kong City Hall, Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong. It had hydrofoil service to Tsim Sha Tsui East. Due to the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation, both Queen's Pier and City Hall Ferry Pier were closed and relocated to Central Piers No.7 and 8 on 11 November 2006.

The Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company Limited, HYF, is a ferry company founded in 1897 in Hong Kong. It is commonly known as Yaumati Ferry (油蔴地小輪). After restructuring the company in 1989, it became a subsidiary of Hong Kong Ferry (Holdings) Company Limited.

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[1] Map of Tsim Sha Tsui East

[2] Pier Relocation for Central/Tsim Sha Tsui (East) Ferry Service

[3] Increased Sea and Land Transport Services For Christmas and the New Year

[4] Traffic Advice Cessation of "Central - Tsim Sha Tsui (East)" Licensed Ferry Service Archived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine .