Opinion | On a slow boat to China: when coastal shipping, not direct flights, connected Hong Kong to mainland China and Southeast Asia
Swift, efficient transport connections between Hong Kong’s various hinterlands are now taken for granted; air travel and high-speed railway networks link locations along the China coast – including both sides of the Taiwan Strait. But until the widespread advent of direct air services from Southeast Asia throughout the 1980s, relatively small-scale passenger vessel services enabled … Read more
