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Fullers Group Limited is a ferry and tourism company in Auckland, New Zealand. It operates in the Hauraki Gulf and Waitemata Harbour. Fullers Group is the latest in a long line of almost continuous harbour and gulf ferry operations based in Auckland since the 1870s.
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Services
Fullers run ferries from the Auckland Ferry Terminal in Quay Street, Downtown Auckland. Fullers operate to the North Shore suburbs of Devonport, Bayswater, Birkenhead, Northcote and Stanley Bay, as well as Half Moon Bay near the eastern suburb of Howick, and Waiheke Island.
Fullers also operate tourism / excursion ferry services to the Hauraki Gulf islands of Rangitoto Island and Great Barrier Island (seasonal). Services to Rangitoto are via Devonport, and Fullers also operate a Half Moon Bay – Waiheke service. For the tourism services, two new catamaran ferries, Adventurer and Wanderer, were purchased in 2006 and 2007 for NZ$3 million and NZ$2 million respectively. These vessels will also assist on the company's main ferry routes during peak hours.
Fullers has recently increased prices despite declines in international and domestic fuel prices – and despite that many services are subsidised by tax payers via Auckland Transport public transport policies.
Vessels
The vessels of Fullers include:
The vessels of 360 Discovery include:
Corporate information
In 2007, Fullers carried around 4.2 million passengers, on a total of 42,010 sailings (an average of almost 100 passengers per journey). For the transport, it was fortunate to receive tax payer subsidies of around 84c per passenger and journey (except on the Waiheke Island service). Fullers recently increased prices despite a drop in diesel prices - making this one of the most expensive ferry trips in the world. Auckland subsidies are half the subsidy of Brisbane ferry operators (who only have a river to cross) and only a seventh of the subsidies paid for ferry public transport in Sydney. In April 2009, Fullers' Auckland ferry services were sold by Infratil to Brian Souter's Highland Global Transport.
Awards
In 2009, Fullers Ferries received a Cycle Friendly Award from Cycling Advocates' Network for the best cycle-friendly commitment by a business in New Zealand.