A touch of class for Penang ferries


PPC chairman Datuk Tan Teik Cheng visiting Pengkalan Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal at Butterworth. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: Many times have the ferry service between Penang island and its mainland been changed, and it is going to change again, with all the blessings of modernity while retaining the centuries-old delight of ferry-crossing.

Row boats once kept the people-flow going between the island and the mainland about 300 years ago and gradually, diesel engines gave commuters the advantage of speed.

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