It's all aboard for the Pattaya to Pranburi sea ferry

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It's all aboard for the Pattaya to Pranburi sea ferry


Image: Thai Tribune

BANGKOK: -- It's all systems go for the Pattaya to Pranburi ferry - 1000 baht per person or 3000 for a car - taking just 90 minutes. Up to 2.8 million passengers are expected to use the full service annually.

The company that will run the service has said that 15 billion baht will be invested for its operation.

Journey time is expected to be one and a half hours. Foot passengers will be charged 1,000 baht with a car costing 3,000 baht.

There will be 16 trips a day with each able to carry 400 people, 30 cars and 12 motorbikes reported Thai Tribune. The journey will be 109 kilometers by sea compared to 380 kms by road slashing the road journey time by three hours.

The operation will be run by SEP group (Siam Eastern Industrial Park Co.) who will set up two subsidiaries to run the service itself and the three terminals.

Terminals will be built at Pattaya (Ban Ampher), Bang Pu (K-City) in the Samut Prakarn area and Pranburi (Pak Nam).

Four mid size catamaran style ferries will be used.

In addition to the direct service between the eastern seaboard and Pranburi there will also be 20 trips a day plying the Pranburi - Bang Pu - Pattaya route.

Project manager Pirapong Prasopsukcharoen said that the project will be a boon not just for tourism coffers but the overall economy expecting it to add 16.5 billion baht to the economy and 1.8 million baht to labour markets.

Plans had originally been mooted in the Yingluck Shinawatra government days but these have now been fast tracked.

Investment will come from SEP as well as other Thai and foreign investors. Some 15 billion baht will be used to build the three terminals and provide the ferries. Siam Eastern Logistics Co will be set up to run the ferry services themselves while Siam Easter Logistics Terminal Co will run the ports. After 30 years the ports will come into the hands of the state.

In addition to the weight of passengers and vehicles, 40 tons of other goods will be able to be carried.

No date has yet been set for the start of the operation.

Source: Thai Tribune


-- 2016-06-01

[JAG]

The Captain is required to be a strong swimmer.

How else can he perform the inevitable ".....fled the scene of the accident"?

[The manic]

Anymore details anyone?

[Merylhighground]

Again? They seem to rattle this one out ever three /four years or so though in the past with Hua Hin as the destination.....

Sadly doomed for failure yet again at those prices. I know many folks (Both Thai and Western) who would rather spend the best part of a day and a few hundred Baht going to the South via BKK on the road than spend that sort of brass.

Far better to run a few 'chugging' slow boats taking the bast part of a day to cross the gulf at a realistic price. Shows how deluded, out of touch and totally removed from reality the people in charge of such things are....well they're heading for a huge financial disaster soon enough.....

[Mook23]

1000thb? 3000thb? So. 5 people in 1 car is 8000? Or just 3000 ? If it's 8000 it's ridiculous!

[mtls2005]

No date has yet been set for the start of the operation.

Terminals will be built

Wake me up when service commences.

[CarolinaJames]

Weekend getaway with wife and car...8,000 for tickets. Pass

[Katipo]

I think they will struggle with this price. Perhaps offering 500 baht economy seating and 800 - 1,000 for business class type seating might work.

Otherwise the target of 'up to' 7,600 passengers per day might be a little out of reach.

[HOOD Robin]

Greed, greed and more greed....

What else one can expect in Land of Scams and the " ASEAN hub of justice affairs "

[tx22cb]

Surely that boat in the photo can't take 30 cars?!

And traveling 109 km in 90 minutes = 73 km/hour average? Unlikely.

[KhonKaenKowboy]

rt for 1000 maybe....but a good preview of how expensive super choochoo will be....like triple a cheap Airasia ticket,

[SunsetT]

1000thb? 3000thb? So. 5 people in 1 car is 8000? Or just 3000 ? If it's 8000 it's ridiculous!

....Then add in the rip-off taxi or kamakaze minibus prices to get from Pranburi to Hua Hin.

[wpcoe]

Assuming that the 7.8 million passengers they expect is per year, that's over 21,000 people daily will cross the waters? That seems a tad high.

And, having to get to Ban Amphur to catch the ferry, and then from Pranburi to Hua Hin once you get there -- have they thought through the logisitics of the ferry from a passenger point of view?

[jamesbrock]

Surely that boat in the photo can't take 30 cars?!

And traveling 109 km in 90 minutes = 73 km/hour average? Unlikely.

Trust a farang to scrutinise the numbers and cause disunity in the Kingdom. AA invitation on its way for you!

[RIJoe]

The boats will have water wings and back up lights.

[ehs818]

This is nonsense. The fare is too high, the infrastructure has yet to be built, and excuse me, but did I read that the Pattaya departure location is actually in Baan Amphur? Doomed. Taxi fare per person to there will be at least 250 a person. If they were smart (not gonna happen) they'd make it accessible from the Bali Hai Marina. By the way, I wonder what the rate for a motorcycle is...

[Mickmouse1]

The full capacity will amount to APPROX <8000 Passengers / day incl motorbikes & 4 pp/car.the total income at full capacity which is impossible to achieve on dsily basis is 8 mil baht.As for the car 3000 incl I guess 4 passengers.

I would rather rough it n go on the bus or SWIM IT if can grab some red viagras ??

[edwinchester]

Surely that boat in the photo can't take 30 cars?!

And traveling 109 km in 90 minutes = 73 km/hour average? Unlikely.

The high-speed ferries across the English Channel have a top speed just under 80 kph.

[NickJ]

I was rather good friends with the guy that captained the last Pattaya / Pranburi boat. it was to small for cars but it was near empty everytime I took it......Dont know where they are getting there numbers from.

[BigBadGeordie]

No date has yet been set for the start of the operation.

Terminals will be built

Wake me up when service commences.

Sleep well, Rip Van Winkle, sleep well.

[tomyumchai]

1000thb? 3000thb? So. 5 people in 1 car is 8000? Or just 3000 ? If it's 8000 it's ridiculous!

imagine 12 thais in a pick up...kerching!

[tuanku]

Surely that boat in the photo can't take 30 cars?!

And traveling 109 km in 90 minutes = 73 km/hour average? Unlikely.

Ssshhh, you are not supposed to check the facts and prick the bubble of optimism that drives these projects. Just smile and nod. I saw the Grand Opening of the last ferry, and a few weeks later it was all over. Once the bank loan is secured I think the business happily takes a dive.

[IAMHERE]

The Captain is required to be a strong swimmer.

How else can he perform the inevitable ".....fled the scene of the accident"?

Likely that the captain thinks he could walk on water.

[Usual Suspect]

There's a good bus service from Hua Hin to Patts now at a good price..OK so there's only 1 direct bus each way daily (& yes it does take a few hours) , but could we use this as an indicator of the true amount of folk wishing to travel this route..?

(If there were thousands of people wishing to go to/fro from Patts to H.H. I'd have thought at this present time the road would be full of buses plying this route).

Amazing how marketing people can create big numbers of travellers in dire need of this ferry service...perhaps they've seen how the TaT

have eveyrone believing the figures they publish..?

[JAG]

Surely that boat in the photo can't take 30 cars?!

And traveling 109 km in 90 minutes = 73 km/hour average? Unlikely.

The high-speed ferries across the English Channel have a top speed just under 80 kph.

Indeed, they are not known as the "Vomit Rockets" for nothing!

[CcCowboys]

Talk talk talk.....

The three terminals are not built yet....

No boats ordered....

Fat chance this will happen in 10 years time

Baan Amphur is not Pattaya, it is at the end of NaJomtien, nearly Bang saray at least a 300 Baht (shared) taxi-ride and at least the same or more on the other side.... this is doomed before start....

They should make it go from Bali Hi to Hua Hin city center..... even then they will struggle for sure.....

[lonewolf99]

The vessel in the picture is just that... A picture of a ferry boat. It is a high speed Cat used in many other parts of the real Planet Earth.

This deluded area has yet to learn basic Arithmetic let alone navigation skills.

The numbers do not add up.

Of course...These vessels will be competing with the High Speed Rail link in 2525 if man is still alive.

[tuanku]

There's a good bus service from Hua Hin to Patts now at a good price..OK so there's only 1 direct bus each way daily (& yes it does take a few hours) , but could we use this as an indicator of the true amount of folk wishing to travel this route..?

(If there were thousands of people wishing to go to/fro from Patts to H.H. I'd have thought at this present time the road would be full of buses plying this route).

Amazing how marketing people can create big numbers of travellers in dire need of this ferry service...perhaps they've seen how the TaT

have eveyrone believing the figures they publish..?

You are assuming some market research was actually done - big assumption, big mistake.

[jobsworth]

anybody know where is pranburi? somewhere near hua hin? north or south? why not say so. never heard of pranburi.

[DefaultName]

Even if they can carry those numbers, what makes them think that many people want to make that journey?