Andaman Ferry Open Dataset

Ferry operators

Four private operators and the government (DSS) service run between Port Blair, Havelock and Neil Island. All four private operators add a fuel surcharge of Rs 300–325 per sector; ITT Majestic reintroduced its surcharge on 10 October 2026.

Routes & journey times

Havelock is officially Swaraj Dweep; Neil Island is Shaheed Dweep. Route fare ranges are historical references, not current quotes. Tax/fee inclusion and government passenger-category eligibility need confirmation; check DSS/STARS separately.

Departure times & schedule (2026)

Indicative daily departures by route and operator. Times shift seasonally and by vessel — always confirm the live time and seat availability at booking. "From" prices are recorded snapshot fare amounts, not current offers or final checkout totals. Full schedule guide →

Fares by route, operator & class (2026)

Historical reference ranges, not live quotes or final payable totals. Tax inclusion and current availability have not been reverified. Rows marked “operator feed” were read from that operator's booking feed on the date shown, for the sailing dates given, and are still not a live quote. The Port Service Fee is Rs 50 per ticket, levied by the Port Authority (team confirmation, 16 September 2026). Private rows show the fee included in our checkout; government-service collection needs separate confirmation. Review the selected fare, port fees, applicable fuel surcharge and discounts at checkout. Do not add an assumed GST percentage. Fare and checkout guidance →

Pricing guidance corrected 2026-10-10; original fare verification dates are shown per record. “Not verified” does not mean tax-free.

Cancellation & refund policy

The passenger-cancellation reference below was taken from BookYourFerry's published passenger cancellation policy. Other historical operator/government references retain their original dates and await current confirmation. They are not independently verified operator terms or a new refund guarantee. Ask support which conditions, deductions and refundable fees apply to your ticket; historical invoice-level GST treatment remains unverified. Point-to-point public passenger ferry transport is GST-exempt; separate services require their own tax treatment.

For BookYourFerry bookings, the published BYF policy states a 100% refund including all fees or a free reschedule when the operator cancels for weather or technical reasons. This reference page does not change that commitment; operator-direct and government terms are separate.

• Historical operator-cancellation reference — awaiting operator confirmation: Full refund OR free reschedule (passenger's choice)
• Historical government reference — awaiting DSS confirmation: Government (STARS portal) tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable

Press & media

Published BookYourFerry booking-leg aggregates describe this platform only, not the whole Andaman ferry market. The downloadable monthly snapshot contains 22,314 legs across 14 monthly rows, June 2025–July 2026; July 2026 is partial. The source booking database has not been re-extracted for this wording correction.

• June–September 2025: 2,869 legs across four months, averaging 717.25 per month.
• October 2025–February 2026: 14,183 legs across five months, averaging 2,836.6 per month.
• These are historical platform booking volumes, not passenger counts, capacity, market share or evidence that weather caused a change.

Method: the published series defines a leg as a sector of a confirmed booking grouped by travel date, not booking date. Arithmetic above is reproducible from the CSV. Partial July 2026 is included in the all-row total but excluded from both seasonal averages. This is a snapshot, not a live inventory or current demand report.

Correction, 17 September 2026: we have withdrawn the earlier 34,868-leg headline and “42% of seats within 48 hours” claim from this page. The latter mixed booking sectors with seats and calendar-day buckets with elapsed hours; the extraction window also needs reconciliation. Earlier press graphics may still circulate at their original URLs and contain those superseded claims. They are not endorsed as current evidence; use the qualified CSV summary above. No independent operator-status verification is claimed by this correction.

Media enquiries and methodology requests: vivek@bookyourferry.com. Request a reconciled, dated extract before publishing a new booking-window statistic.

How to cite

Attribute the specific version you use and its access date. The Zenodo DOI identifies an archived deposit; this live page and its downloads can contain later corrections. This update does not modify the external archive.

Methodology & provenance

Every record carries a source, sourceType and lastVerified date. Facts are compiled from operator websites and BookYourFerry's own booking-engine integrations with Makruzz, Nautika, Green Ocean and ITT Majestic, then cross-checked against bookings handled from our Port Blair office. Fare figures are historical reference ranges, not current quotes; their original dates remain on each record. Historical invoice fields remain unverified, not an assumed zero rate. Point-to-point public passenger ferry transport is GST-exempt under the separately sourced guidance in the fares dataset; this does not establish tax treatment for ancillary services or tourism packages. Review date-specific prices and the final total on our booking pages. The dataset is reviewed quarterly and whenever an operator changes pricing, schedule or fleet.

Maintained by BookYourFerry.com, Port Blair · Licence CC-BY 4.0 · Latest reference check 2026-09-02 · Pricing guidance corrected 2026-10-10