bay of islands fullers group type private industry ferry & tourism company headquarters auckland new zealand owner inmotion group website http www.fullers.co.nz fullers group limited is a ferry and tourism company in auckland new zealand . 1 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 . contents 1 services 2 vessels 3 corporate information 4 awards 5 see also 6 references 7 external links services edit the mv quick cat deployed on the waiheke island service 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 . 1 fullers has recently when 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 edit the jet raider at the auckland ferry terminal the vessels of fullers include adventurer catamaran harbour cat catamaran originally named pakatoa cat jetraider mono hull built in 1990 and used as a standby vessel for when breakdowns happen also does the summer services to great barrier island quickcat catamaran built in 1987 and runs the auckland waiheke service quickcat ii catamaran built in 1993 seaflyte catamaran built in 1993 kea longitudinally symmetrical catamaran built in 1988 and used on the auckland cbd devonport service starflyte catamaran built in 1999 superflyte catamaran built in 1995 and operates services to waiheke island and seasonally to great barrier island tiger cat catamaran wanderer catamaran takah catamaran joined fleet in 2014 te kotuku catamaran built by q west 2014 corporate information edit in 2007 fullers carried around 4.2 million passengers on a total of 42 010 sailings an average of almost 100 passengers per journey . 2 3 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 . 2 in april 2009 fullers auckland ferry services were sold by infratil to brian souter s highland global transport . 4 awards edit 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 . see also edit public transport in auckland references edit a b dearnaley mathew 30 october 2007 . 2m cat for birkenhead commuters . the new zealand herald . p. a8 . retrieved 30 september 2011 . a b fullers floats ferry services as solution to traffic woes . the new zealand herald . nzpa . 28 february 2008 . retrieved 30 september 2011 . fullers today from the official company website radio new zealand morning report 7 april 2009 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to fullers group . fullers auckland official company website fullerswatch waiheke island watchdog site on the fullers transport monopoly to that island retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fullers group & oldid 702987753 categories ferry companies of new zealandpublic transport in aucklandcompanies based in aucklandhidden categories vague or ambiguous time from october 2015commons category with page title same as on wikidatause dmy dates from february 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages edit links this page was last modified on 2 february 2016 at 20 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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