Kwun Tong Pier, ferry pier complex in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
Kwun Tong Pier is a ferry complex on Hoi Yuen Road in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, made up of a passenger ferry pier, a vehicular ferry pier and the adjacent Kwun Tong Public Pier. The passenger pier has a flat concrete fascia supported by rectangular pillars, with black lettering reading KWUN TONG PUBLIC PIER above the Chinese characters 觀塘碼頭; the fascia edge is worn and peeling. Below, blue cylindrical posts stand in front of the pillars, behind a low blue railing and concrete columns.
The pier began as Ngau Tau Kok Ferry Pier; in the 1960s reclamation moved it to Kwun Tong, and in June 1967 the government approved adding a roof. It shifted again in 1972 to its present site near Hoi Yuen Road. Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry once ran routes to Central, North Point, Shau Kei Wan and Chai Wan; after its franchise ended in 1999, Fortune Ferry took over the North Point licence in September.
The pier complex has three parts: a passenger ferry pier, a vehicular ferry pier and a public pier. The passenger pier's former Shau Kei Wan half became a supermarket, now closed and sometimes used for exhibitions. The vehicular pier's upper floor housed Kwun Tong Driving School, and its dangerous-goods berth reopened in 2008 for tankers and LPG vehicles barred from the harbour tunnels.
The passenger ferry pier is on Hoi Yuen Road; a footbridge links it to Manulife Financial Centre. Only the lower deck is open, and its waiting hall has rows of seats but little lighting. Fortune Ferry runs to North Point via Kai Tak Runway Park Pier, and Coral Sea Ferry to Sai Wan Ho.
The 1999 film The Legend of Speed, directed by Andrew Lau and starring Ekin Cheng and Cecilia Cheung, used the pier as the start and finish point for its car-racing scenes. Television dramas and music videos were also shot here, including the series Blue Veins and the film L Storm.
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