Launch of water taxi designs

The hybrid designs include a new 31m-long Eco Ferry design, with a speed of 20 knots, which has been proposed by BMT for operation on some of the traditional routes across Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour. A smaller 14-passenger harbour craft has also been proposed for on-demand and ad-hoc trips, the company said.  
Richard Colwill, regional managing director of BMT, said: “By introducing BMT’s new vessel designs, we wish to demonstrate the opportunities to introduce more flexible and sustainable marine transport infrastructure. Recent studies for customers of potential ferry routes suggest the Eco Ferry hybrid propulsion allows the engines to be switched off for over 50% of the time, so that’s a huge saving on fuel consumption, engine hours and maintenance – not to mention the removal of emissions, particularly as ferries arrive, loiter and leave piers.”