Cotai Water Jet

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Cotai Water Jet
金光飛航
IATA
ICAO
Callsign
8C — —
Founded2007
Commenced operations2007
Las Vegas Sands Corporation
HeadquartersMacau
Websitewww.cotaiwaterjet.com
Cotai Water Jet
Hanyu Pinyin
Jīnguāng Fēiháng
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpinggam1 gwong1 fei1 hong4
Portuguese namePortuguese
Jacto de Água CotaiEnglish nameEnglishCotai Water Jet

Cotai Water Jet (Chinese: 金光飛航; Portuguese: Jacto de Água Cotai) is a company that operates high-speed ferry services between the special administrative regions of Macau and Hong Kong. It is one of the two companies operating high-speed ferry services between the two territories – the other one being TurboJET.

The Taipa Ferry Terminal in Macau is used by this ferry route to enable easy access to The Venetian Macao in Cotai, although it is also chosen by some because of its proximity to Taipa, Cotai, and Coloane in comparison to the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal (Terminal Marítimo) used by TurboJET on the Macau Peninsula. Cotai Water Jet is a subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands.

Cotai Water Jet has been assigned the two-letter

IATA, used for routes to and from Hong Kong International Airport
only, where passengers must continue to other destinations (or vice versa) by air.

Current routes

Fleet

Cotai Water Jet's fleet are built by Austal Shipyard of Australia.

Brand of vessels

  • Austal 48m: 47.5m length, 70 (net) tonnes, 411/413/417 passengers
    diesel engines, rated at 2320 kW each.[5] Cruising speed at 42 knots. Built by Austal Shipyard of Australia.[5]

List of vessels

There are all together 14 vessels:

Rented vessels (all returned in early 2009)

  • Lian Shan Hu: 39.5m length, 338 passengers catamaran. Propelled by waterjets powered by twin MTU 16V 396 TE 74L diesel engines, rated at 1580 kW each. Maximum speed at 32 knots. Built by Austal Shipyard of Australia.
  • Nan Gui: 40.1m length, 338 passengers catamaran. Propelled by waterjets powered by twin MTU 16V 396 TE 74L diesel engines, rated at 1825 kW each. Maximum speed at 32 knots. Built by Austal Shipyard of Australia.

Ticketing offices

Shun Tak Center, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

This is a list where passengers can buy tickets to Cotai Water Jet.[6]

Macau

The Venetian Macao

  • Cotai Travel (Shop 1028)
  • Concierge Desk (Hotel Lobby, Level 1)
  • Concierge Desk (Hotel West Lobby, Level 1)
  • Cotai Ticketing North and South Box Offices (Cotai Arena, Level 1)
  • Customer service counter (Di Moda Street at the Grand Canal Shoppes)
  • Cotai Ticketing Call Center (Macau: +853 2882 8818 / Hong Kong: +852 6333 6660)

Sands Macao

  • Guest Services Counter, Ground Level

Sands Cotai Central

  • CotaiTravel (Shop1030)
  • Concierge Counter (
    Conrad Macao
    Lobby, Cotai Central)
  • Concierge Counter (Holiday Inn Macao Lobby, Cotai Central)
  • Concierge Desk (
    Sheraton Macao Hotel
    Main Lobby, Cotai Central)
  • CotaiTicketing Box Office (Holiday Inn)
  • CotaiTicketing Box Office (Sheraton Hotel)

Taipa Ferry Terminal

  • Cotai Water Jet Ticketing Counter (Departure Hall)

Hong Kong

Sheung Wan

Tsim Sha Tsui

  • Shop 7, 1/F China Ferry Terminal, 33 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon

Hong Kong International Airport

  • Transfer Area E2, Level 5, Hong Kong International Airport Passenger Terminal Building One

Accidents

  • On 29 August 2009, a Cotai Water Jet bumped into a giant buoy and broke the catamaran windows with 1 injured.[7]
  • On 4 September 2009, THE VENETIAN collided with a sampan at Zhuhai waters killing 1 person.[8]
  • On 25 December 2009, COTAI STRIP COTAIGOLD collided with a Hong Kong fishing boat in Zhuhai waters near
    bow of the catamaran was crushed and repaired later.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ "COTAI STRIP® - COTAI Jet™". Archived from the original on 2009-12-12. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
  2. ^ "COTAI STRIP® - COTAI Jet™". Archived from the original on 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
  3. ^ "COTAI STRIP® - COTAI Jet™". Archived from the original on 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
  4. ^ http://cotaijet.com.mo/en/images/new_route/poster.jpg[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ a b c "Austal Website". Archived from the original on 2010-10-19. Retrieved 2010-05-30.
  6. ^ "Buy a Ticket | Macao Ferry | Official Site of Cotai Water Jet". Archived from the original on 2014-04-25. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  7. ^ Oriental Daily Article, Retrieved 18:31, 30 May 2010
  8. ^ China Daily Article, Retrieved 18:45, 30 May 2010 Archived 2008-09-18 at archive.today
  9. ^ a b Macau Daily Times Article, Retrieved 19:20, 29 May 2010 Archived 2011-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Apple Daily Article, Retrieved 18:21, 30 May 2010

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