An independent guide to scheduled island ferries. It does not sell tickets.
These English pages of Lauttainfo Taiwan are meant for travelers who cannot read the Chinese notices posted at the piers; a separate Traditional Chinese edition serves local readers. The site is part of lauttainfo.com, an independent project that began with Finland's road ferries and now keeps one guide per country for several countries. Nobody involved works for a shipping company, a county or township government, a harbor bureau or a tourism agency, and none of them pays for the site, which is funded by advertising.
Responsibility for a route in Taiwan can sit with a private shipping company, with a county or township office that runs public island boats, or with a booking system shared by several operators in Matsu. For every route we read the schedule and fare notice issued by whoever runs it, save a dated copy, and that date appears beside the table.
The usual pitfalls for visitors are practical ones: a new passenger terminal with lettered waiting rooms, a half-fare rule that may not accept a foreign ID, or a schedule released only a few days ahead. The pages spell these out in plain English.
Any figure we cannot tie to an official notice stays off the page. That includes two government sources that disagree and prices quoted only by a ticket agent; the page says what is missing. Each route also shows when it was last checked and the deadline for its next review, because island schedules change with the seasons and the weather.
Found a schedule or fare that is out of date at the terminal? Email [email protected] with the route name and the details. We verify against the official notice before updating anything.