** The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in th world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

Two companies provide the connections: SNCM, a partially public company and Corsica Ferries – Sardinia Ferries, an entirely private company.

Stena Line, Europe's biggest ferry company, operates from the port, as do Irish Ferries.

Local company Western Ferries carries motor vehicles and passengers.

In 2002, P & O acquired all of Stena's shares in the company, thus becoming the sole owner of P & O Stena Line, which soon changed its name to P & O Ferries.

* Northumberland Ferries Limited, a ferry company operating in eastern Canada and headquartered in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

NFL is also the owner of subsidiaries Bay Ferries Limited and Bay Ferries Great Lakes Limited through its holding company

Inter-island ferry services connect all the inhabited islands to Orkney Mainland, and are operated by Orkney Ferries, a company owned by Orkney Islands Council.

Searoad Ferries ( formerly known as Peninsula Searoad Transport ) is an Australian company that operates a roll-on / roll-off vehicle and passenger ferry service between the heads of Port Phillip, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

* Brittany Ferries, official name BAI, French ferry company

Northumberland Ferries Limited ( NFL ) is a ferry company operating in eastern Canada and headquartered in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

NFL is also the owner of subsidiaries Bay Ferries Limited and Bay Ferries Great Lakes Limited through its holding company.

HSC Incat 046 ' The Cat ': Yarmouth, NS-Bar Harbor, ME, Yarmouth, NS-Portland, ME Bay Ferries Limited, referred to simply as Bay Ferries, is a ferry company operating in eastern Canada and is headquartered in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

It is a subsidiary of Northumberland Ferries Limited ( NFL ) and a sister company to the defunct Bay Ferries Great Lakes Limited.

Irish Ferries took delivery of the 1989 – built MS Kronprins Harald from the Norwegian shipping company Color Line in September 2007.

In 2001, Star Cruises founded a new sister company, Cruise Ferries, which began operating its sole ship, Wasa Queen, on short cruises from Hong Kong to Xiamen followed by overnight gambling cruises from Hong Kong and gambling cruises from Port Klang in Kuala Lumpur.

The Presidio and Ferries Railway followed two years later, and was the first cable company to include curves on its routes.

Services are provided by Stena Line and Irish Ferries.

The other Viking Line partners forced the new owners to sell their share in Viking, but Effoa and Johnson Line still gained Vaasanlaivat / Vasabåtarna, Sally Cruises, Sally Ferries UK and Commodore Cruise Line.

The main ferry companies operating on these routes are Stena Line, Irish Ferries and Celtic Link.

Set up in 1960 to provide a similar service to that provided by the Black Ball Line and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which were affected by job action at the time, BC Ferries has become the largest passenger ferry line in North America and the second largest in the world, boasting a fleet of 36 vessels with a total passenger and crew capacity of over 27, 000, serving 49

Stena Line doubled in size in 1990 with the acquisition of Sealink British Ferries from Sea Containers Ltd.

In 1998, Stena's operations from Dover and Newhaven were merged with P & O European Ferries to form P & O Stena Line, 40 % of which was owned by Stena and 60 % by P & O.

Passenger ferries operate to and from Fishguard ( Stena Line ) and Pembroke Dock ( Irish Ferries ) in Wales, and to Cherbourg and Roscoff in France.

Instead of receiving the traditional white hull of Irish Ferries, the ship maintained the blue hull of Color Line.

When Stena Line bought Sealink British Ferries in 1990, the Isle of Wight ferries remained with Sea Containers, as ‘ Wightlink ’.

7 years later, In 1991 Sea Containers sold Sealink British Ferries to Stena Line.

Under contracts let by the New York City Department of Dock and Ferries, the Chelsea Section Improvement, as it was officially called, replaced a hodgepodge of run-down waterfront structures with a row of grand buildings embellished with pink granite facades and formed the docking points for the rival Cunard Line and White Star Line.

From 1982 to 1983 DFDS ' passenger operations were branded as DFDS Danish Seaways ( Esbjerg — Harwich / Newcastle upon Tyne / Tórshavn, Copenhagen — Oslo, Newcastle upon Tyne — Oslo ), DFDS Tor Line ( Gothenburg — Harwich / Newcastle upon Tyne / Amsterdam ) and DFDS Prins Ferries ( Harwich — Hamburg / Bremerhaven ).

At the same time Inreko sold the Tallink Express hydrofoils to Linda Line, Estonia, and begun operating the Vana Tallinn on Helsinki – Tallinn traffic under the name TH Ferries.

Most of the debts were acquired to purchase Silja Line for 470 million euros and Superfast Ferries for 310 million.

The U. S. operates preinspection posts for immigration only ( customs is still performed upon arrival in the U. S .) at the port of Victoria for the Black Ball Line MV Coho car ferry service to Port Angeles, Washington, and at the terminal in Sidney for the Washington State Ferries service to Anacortes, Washington.

Ferries docked at Heraklion port

Ferries also helped prevent death by drowning at river crossings.

Ferries form a part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities and islands, allowing direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than bridges or tunnels.

After passing through Charlottetown it ends at Wood Islands where a ferry route ( operated by Northumberland Ferries Limited, or NFL ) crosses the Northumberland Strait to Caribou, Nova Scotia ( near Pictou ).

Ferries berthed both at the Town Pier and at the Battery Pier ( now beneath the Forth Bridge ).

Ferries have been used on this route since at least the 12th century, and continue to be popular for both local people and visitors.

In August 2012 it was announced that Merseytravel were initiating a review into cost saving on Mersey Ferries operations after the service is running at a £ 1 million annual loss.

The provincial government at the time, led by New Democratic Party ( NDP ) premier Glen Clark, decided to use provincial Crown corporation BC Ferries to advance its economic goal of supporting British Columbia's shipbuilding industry by creating a fleet of custom-designed high-speed catamaran passenger / vehicle ferries for BC Ferries.

The vessels built for BC Ferries were intended to improve ferry service between the mainland terminal of Horseshoe Bay ( in West Vancouver ) and the Vancouver Island terminal at Departure Bay ( in Nanaimo ).

* During the project, the chief executive officer for CFI also held the same position at BC Ferries.

Westcountry's original shareholders were Brittany Ferries and South West Water ; the latter investor attracted criticism as only three years earlier it was responsible for one of the worst water pollution incidents in the United Kingdom and which occurred within the contract area at Camelford.

Westcountry was originally based at Brittany Ferries ' offices in Millbay Docks, Plymouth with a view to building a purpose-built studio centre on the Plymouth waterfront.

The primary transportation links between the Islands and mainland British Columbia are through the Sandspit Airport, the Masset Airport and the BC Ferries terminal at Skidegate.

Ferries plied from the pier at that point and the island daily.

Williamstown Ferries operates a regular ferry service running primarily between St Kilda and Williamstown as well as operating services with to the Melbourne CBD with drop-off points at major tourist attractions which departs from St Kilda Pier.

The City is served by an airport ( YBL ), a seaplane base called YHH at Campbell River Harbour, a BC Ferries route to Quadra Island, and an inland island highway and an oceanside island highway which connect the community to the rest of Vancouver Island.

Ferries formerly existed at Rochford, at Cotheridge and at Clifton on Teme.

Before 1979, the highway terminated in the north at Kelsey Bay, where BC Ferries originally began its northern route to Prince Rupert until moving its southern terminus north to Port Hardy after the highway was extended.

BC Ferries then takes Highway 16 across the Hecate Strait for 172 km ( 107 mi ) due northeast to its landing at Prince Rupert.