KEE Marine proactively took part in the fleet procurement in the Vessel Subsidy Scheme from the Transport Department, this scheme aimed at providing financial subsidies to the Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry Limited in establishing a fleet of crafts serving the outlying islands (phase I of the scheme in 2024 consisted of nine carbon fibre high speed catamarans).
Our role in this project was to provide consultative comments and guidance in order to ensure these vessels would be delivered in aspects covering from the financial arrangements to the actual deliveries, the tasks involved within were:
Our affiliate company – The Hong Kong & Kowloon Ferry Holdings Limited (HKKF) accepted the invitation from the Airport Authority Hong Kong, in organising, operating and managing the high speed ferry services to carry the engineering personnel of the Airport’s Third Runway Expansion Project. The new ferry service is expected to be in service by the beginning of 2020, which will save land transportation time, raise the overall productivity between various departments.
KEE Marine Service and Consultant Limited actively participated in the organising, operation and management of such ferry services, providing safe, comfortable and convenient transportation for 6000 passenger flow daily connecting the Airport third runway's two construction sites (the north-eastern and south-western ends) and Tsuen Wan. KEE Marine oversees HKKF in the scopes of berth facilities, the maintenance of the catamarans and the trainings of all transportation personnel.
In light of tackling technical problems like the high passenger flow density during peak hours and in shallow water areas, an all-rounded and comprehensive transportation system will significantly enhance the collaboration between the various departments of the project. For these reasons, we advised HKKF in the building of a number of aluminium-hull catamarans of 500 passenger capacity, which to be introduced coping with anticipated future demands on these sites.
As an aspired corporation to our society, our Technical Research and Development Team will be actively exploring the possibility of hybrid powered vessels (i.e. the facility of using fuel-cell as energy storage), encouraging different stake holders within the industry in being environmental friendly and Sci-Tech innovative.
KEE Marine's Director, Mr. T. K. Cheung is honoured to be appointed as the Managing Director of MKK Marine Services Limited (MKK), which is a contractor of the Suez NWS R&R (Hong Kong) Limited and ATAL Engineering Limited.
MKK was founded in 2015, began by managing two vessels which have special containers carrying sludge from DSD’s Stonecutters Island Sewage Treatment Works to The Sludge Treatment Facilities in Lung Kwu Tan. Each of these vessels has one gantry crane on board to lift the specially designed containers on board and ashore.
KEE Marine’s role is to directly supervise the daily operation of MKK, in the following areas:
For further info on the Sewage Treatment Facilities, please click the following: SISTW.pdf
In cooperation with NORINCO (China North Industries Corporation, 中國北方工業有限公司) and CRRC Corporation Limited (中國中車股份有限公司), KEE Marine has developed high density supercapacitors for the marine purposes using high capacitance polymers. These tough, flexible and conducting materials have other potential applications including bioelectronics, sensors, wearable electronics, and advanced optics.
Higher fuel costs and stringent regulations of emissions are encouraging operators, shipbuilders and researchers to seek for better marine vessel efficiencies. In the realm of vessel electrical systems, alternative propulsion options have been available due to the research and development over the past decades, making a number of cutting edge technologies available. Promising new battery chemistries are being developed and existing chemistries are being enhanced with nano-technology. Supercapacitors and fuel cells are now powering ferries.
The supercapacitors store energy using electrodes and electrolytes. They are able charge and deliver energy very quickly, unlike conventional batteries that do this cycle in a much slower pace and more sustained way. On top of this, the supercapacitors have the ability to charge and discharge rapidly over very large numbers of discharging cycles.
During the period of August 2016, our in-house Marine Coordinators, were coordinating the berthing process of a 8000 dead weight tonnage (DWT) vessel, M.V. Su Ning 58, which carried the roof segment R1P1 arriving att he Passenger Clearence Building (PCB).
Together with two other tugs lining up along the fore and aft of M.V. Su Ning 58, our Marine Coordinators monitored the whole process closely, at the same time giving instructions to the harbour pilot to berth safely, prior to unloading the roof segment on shore.
Having a diversified management portfolio, we have two decades of experience in ferries, local waste management vessels, and costal navigation general cargo vessels.
Ferry management wise, from the year of 1998, Kee Marine has been invited to take part in managing a passenger fleet company of some 20 vessels, the Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry Company Holdings Limited (HKKF), having routes connecting Central district to outlying islands (i.e Lamma Island, Ma Wan and Ping Chau). Majority of these vessels are catamaran ferries, having cruising speeds of about 25 knots. For further information, please visit the HKKF official website.
Apart from the above, we had also been running a liner company (the Mark Shipping), serving between Beihai, Fangcheng, Qinzhou in Guangxi Province and Hong Kong. With five vessels serving all major international liners, this company had a total capacity of 500 T.E.U.'s and the capability of bulk cargoes.
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