Park Island Transport Company (PITC) operates bus and ferry services between

Ma Wan Ma Wan is an island of Hong Kong, located between Lantau Island and Tsing Yi Island, with an area of .Park Island Park Island is a private housing estate located at Ma Wan, an island in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was mainly developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties as part of the Ma Wan Development joint venture project and completed from 20 ...

is a major

private housing estate A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex or housing development) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Popular throughout the United States a ...

on the island.

History

PITC was established in 2002 as a joint venture between

Hong Kong & Kowloon Ferry Hong Kong & Kowloon Ferry Ltd (HKKF) is a ferry service company in Hong Kong. It was formed by a number of shipping and shipbuilding firms, and was incorporated in Hong Kong in February 1998. HKKF currently provides 3 licensed scheduled passe ...

and

Transport International Transport International Holdings Limited () (), formerly known as the Kowloon Motor Bus Holdings Limited, is a public transport operator in Hong Kong, and some cities in China, including joint ventures in Beijing and Shenzhen. In 1961, Kowloon Mo ...

(then known as Kowloon Motor Bus Holdings). In 2009, the business was purchased by

Sun Hung Kai Properties Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited (SHKP; ) is a listed corporation and the largest property developer in Hong Kong as of 2019. The company is controlled by the Kwok family trust, largely the Kwok brothers. The Kwok family trust was set up by Kw ...

Bus

Routes

PITC currently operates four bus routes: *NR330:

Ma Wan Ma Wan is an island of Hong Kong, located between Lantau Island and Tsing Yi Island, with an area of .Tsing Yi station Tsing Yi is an interchange station of the MTR between the Tung Chung line and Airport Express on Tsing Yi Island in Hong Kong. The station is located between Sunny Bay station and Lai King station on the Tung Chung Line, and between Airport ...

(with NR330A during the peak hours and operated by Sun Bus) *NR332: Ma Wan (Park Island) ⇔

Kwai Fong Kwai Fong is an area of Kwai Chung Town, Kwai Tsing District, Hong Kong. Location The mainly residential area extends to Kwai Hing () in the north, Lai King in the south, Tsing Yi South Bridge, Tsing Yi Bridge to the west, and Tai Lin Pai ...

(between

Metroplaza Metroplaza () is a shopping centre and office building developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties, officially opened in January 1993. It is located in Kwai Fong, Hong Kong and is opposite to Kwai Fong station of MTR. The mall is a shopping hub of adj ...

and

Kwai Tsing Theatre Kwai Tsing Theatre () is a major performance venue in Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is located in Kwai Fong, near Kwai Fong MTR station. It was built by the Regional Council and opened on 18 November 1999 to provide a medium-size venu ...

, near

Kwai Fong station Kwai Fong () is an elevated railway station on of Hong Kong's MTR system. Opened on 10 May 1982, it is located between and stations. Named after Kwai Fong Estate, a large public housing estate to its northeast, Kwai Fong, the neighbourhoo ...

) *NR334: Ma Wan (Park Island) ⇔

Hong Kong International Airport Hong Kong International Airport is Hong Kong's main airport, built on reclaimed land on the island of Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong. The airport is also referred to as Chek Lap Kok International Airport or ''Chek Lap Kok Airport'', to distinguish ...

Terminal 1 & 2 via

Cathay Pacific City Cathay Pacific City (), often referred as Cathay City, is the headquarters of Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's flag-carrying airline. It is located at Hong Kong International Airport, on the south side. History The airline built Cathay Pacific City s ...

Previous routes

*NR338: Ma Wan (Park Island) ⇔

Central Piers The Central Ferry Piers (Chinese: 中環碼頭) are situated on the northeast part of Central, Hong Kong Island. The ferries mostly depart to Outlying Islands in the New Territories, with the exception of Pier 1 serving as a government ...

(Overnight route for the replacement of ferry, 27 July 2008 – 30 April 2020) The following routes were handed over to Sun Bus on 15 December 2019 *NR331: Ma Wan (Pak Yan Road) ⇔

Tsuen Wan station Tsuen Wan () is the northern terminus of the MTR in Hong Kong. It is the only station on the Tsuen Wan line at ground level. It is located in the northern central part of Tsuen Wan New Town, New Territories West. The preceding station is . ...

*NR331S: Ma Wan (Pak Yan Road) ⇔

Tsuen Wan West station Tsuen Wan West is an underground MTR station in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is located between and stations on the . There is an emergency platform on the southern side of the station. There is a large bus and minibus interch ...

and

Nina Tower Nina Tower is a twin tower of 80-storey and 42-storey high-rise buildings in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong near Tsuen Wan West station. The tower was designed to be the tallest tower in the world at . However, due to its location ne ...

via Tai Ho Road Flyover

Fleet

PITC commenced with six-second-hand

Dennis Dart SLF The Dennis Dart is a Rear-engine design, rear-engined single-decker bus, single-decker midibus chassis that was introduced by Dennis Specialist Vehicles of Guildford, England in 1989, replacing the Dennis Domino. Initially built as a high-floo ...

s transferred from

Kowloon Motor Bus The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited (KMB) is a bus company operating franchised services in Hong Kong. It is the largest bus company in Hong Kong by fleet size and number of bus routes. It is a subsidiary of Transport International. ...

. Between 2003 and 2008, due to the rapid growth of residents in Park Island, the company bought new Dennis Dart SPDs and the very first DesignLine Olymbus electronic-motivated HEV bus from New Zealand. The three DesignLine buses were withdrawn in 2008/2010. List of current PITC buses fleet: * 5 Dennis Super Pointer Dart (3 of them with Luggage racks) * 1

Toyota Coaster The is a single-decker minibus produced by Toyota Motor Corporation. It was introduced in 1969, with the second generation introduced in 1982, followed by the third generation in 1993 and the fourth generation in late 2016. In Japan, the Coa ...

* 8 Young Man JNP6122G * 2 MAN NL323F * 9 ADL Enviro 200 * 3 Sunlong Coaches

Ferry

PITC operates a fleet of six high-speed double-deck air-conditioned

catamaran A Formula 16 beachable catamaran Powered catamaran passenger ferry at Salem, Massachusetts, United States A catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a multi-hulled watercraft featuring two parallel hulls of equal size. It is a geometry-stab ...

s. The ferry routes are from Ma Wan to

(Pier 2), and to Tsuen Wan pier, near

.Ferry Schedule
Park Island Transport Company

Fleet

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Ferry

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