Transdev Sydney Ferries, formerly Harbour City Ferries, is a subsidiary of

Transdev Australasia Transdev Australasia is an operator of bus, ferry, light rail and rail services in Australia and New Zealand. It is a subsidiary of French-based, international Transdev. It was formed in 2013 by grouping the operations of Veolia Transport Aust ...

, and is the operator of ferry services in the

Sydney Ferries Sydney Ferries is the public transport ferry network serving the city of Sydney, New South Wales. Services operate on Sydney Harbour and the connecting Parramatta River. The network is controlled by the New South Wales Government's transport a ...

network since July 2012. It currently operates the ferry network under a contract until June 2028. As part of the operation contract, Transdev Sydney Ferries leases both the Balmain Maintenance Facility and the fleet from the government agency

History

In 2011, the

NSW government The Government of New South Wales, also known as the NSW Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of New South Wales. It is currently held by a coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party. The Governmen ...

decided to contract out ferry services to the private sector. Harbour City Ferries was formed as a 50/50 joint venture between Transfield Services (later

Broadspectrum Broadspectrum, formerly known as Transfield Services, was an Australian and New Zealand company that provided infrastructure maintenance services. Formerly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, and later owned by Ferrovial, it was then ...

) and

Veolia Transdev Transdev, formerly Veolia Transdev, is a French-based international private-sector company which operates public transport. It has operations in 17 countries and territories as of November 2020. History The group was formed by the merger of V ...

(later

Transdev Transdev, formerly Veolia Transdev, is a French-based international private-sector company which operates public transport. It has operations in 17 countries and territories as of November 2020. History The group was formed by the merger of V ...

). In May 2012, Harbour City Ferries was announced as the successful tenderer to operate the services on a seven-year contract starting 28 July 2012. In December 2016, Harbour City Ferries became fully owned by

after Transdev bought out Broadspectrum's 50% shareholding.TRANSDEV AUSTRALASIA ACQUIRES 100% OF HARBOUR CITY FERRIES
Transdev Australasia, Published 8 December 2016, Retrieved 19 January 2018 , Harbour City Ferries employs more than 650 people and its fleet consisted of 32 vessels. The government acquired six more ferries in 2017 that were added to the Harbour City Ferries fleet. In July 2019, Harbour City Ferries commenced a new contract to operate the ferries until June 2028. To coincide with the contract, Harbour City Ferries was rebranded Transdev Sydney Ferries. Its website was updated prematurely in June 2019 to reflect the name change. Ten new River-class ferries were commissioned in 2021.Anger as Syd ferries to be built overseas
''

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'' 23 October 2019 3 Emerald Class Ferries entered service in 2021 however were withdrawn in 2022 due to multiple steering failures.

Fleet

Gallery

File:Sydney Ferry MV Narrabeen 1.jpg, Freshwater class ferry, ' at

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File:Sydney Ferry Scarborough 2.jpg,

First Fleet-class ferry The First Fleet class is a class of ferry operated by Transdev Sydney Ferries on Sydney Harbour. History In the early 1980s, the Urban Transit Authority ordered nine catamaran ferries from Carrington Slipways, Tomago. They were to replace the ' ...

, ''Scarborough'' File:Sydney Ferry Nicole Livingstone.jpg, RiverCat class ferry, ''Nicole Livingstone'' File:Sydney Ferry Saint Mary MacKillop 3.jpg, SuperCat class ferry, ''Saint Mary MacKillop'' File:Sydney Ferry Supply and Collaroy.jpg, ''

Collaroy Collaroy is a suburb in northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Collaroy is 22 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of Northern Beac ...

'' & ''

Supply Supply may refer to: *The amount of a resource that is available **Supply (economics), the amount of a product which is available to customers **Materiel, the goods and equipment for a military unit to fulfill its mission *Supply, as in confidenc ...

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, July 2013

References

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