Eastern Ferry Company Schedules 2026

The Eastern Ferry Company crossing is four minutes long and it only runs at dawn. Between Aberdeen and Ap Lei Chau there are two departures, at 06:10 and 07:10, with the return at 06:00 and 07:00. After that, nothing.

The shortest crossing in this entire dataset

Four minutes is less time than it takes to walk the length of the pier at either end. Ap Lei Chau sits directly across Aberdeen Channel from Hong Kong Island, close enough that the two shores are in easy sight of each other — and connected by road bridge, which is what makes the timetable so revealing.

A bridge exists, so why does the boat?

Because the boat is faster for the specific people who use it. The bridge carries road traffic on a route that curves round; the ferry cuts straight across. For workers heading to the Aberdeen fish market and the typhoon shelter before six in the morning, four minutes on the water beats a bus that has not started running yet.

Four sailings, all before 07:15

That is the entire service in our data. There is no midday boat, no evening boat and no weekend variation — all four departures run every day of the week, and all four are done before quarter past seven in the morning. A service shaped like this is not for visitors and does not pretend to be.

The offset tells you it is one boat

Departures alternate: 06:00 from Ap Lei Chau, 06:10 from Aberdeen, 07:00 back, 07:10 out again. A ten-minute gap between arrival and the next departure on a four-minute crossing is a single vessel shuttling, not two boats working opposite ends.

No published website

We have found no website for this operator. The schedule here comes from consolidated transport data rather than the company, so treat it as indicative — and on a service with four sailings all inside seventy minutes, confirm at the pier rather than planning around it.