| As we get back on the ferry to go home, the captain shouts something indistinguishable and throws a small yellow missile at me. |
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| The booth went back to being unstaffed at the end of 2002 as a result of upgrades at and around the ferry terminal. |
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| He said the ship's navigator was allegedly watching a football match when the ferry collided with the islet. |
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| On the ferry over I talked to some American missionaries helping with the relief effort. |
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| At least two people died and eight are still missing after an illegally run ferry capsized and sank on Monday on the Yellow River near Ji'nan. |
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| She fills orders at Seaside Lunch, a snack bar in a trailer at the ferry landing in Tiverton. |
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| That sense of island is heightened when you travel to Ardgour on the little ferry that plies across the Corran narrows of Loch Linnhe. |
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| The ferry was able to continue its journey and return to Kirkwall on one engine, but will be out of service for several weeks, said Mr Henderson. |
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| Water cascaded onto the car deck and the ferry capsized and sank in minutes, coming to rest on its starboard side in just under 30m of water. |
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| On the afternoon of May 14, Glenure crossed the narrows of Loch Leven from Callart by the old Ballachulish ferry en route to Kentallan. |
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| That can include arranging taxis, arranging hotel accommodation, changing ferry bookings, arranging alternative flights where necessary. |
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| Under a blue sky we watch the steamship and fast ferry crossing to the mainland and the windsurfers trying their luck. |
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| But if a rider refused a search, the State Patrol informed the captain of the ferry boat, who then refused to let the rider on the boat. |
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| Afterwards, we take the ferry back to Slussen and have a drink in a mad Czech bar where gorgeous, unflustered nordic barmen pull dozens of pints. |
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| Hundreds of mourners stood at the pier of Arranmore Island yesterday afternoon as the ferry bearing Mr McGowan's remains docked. |
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| The ferry companies have begun using special carbon-dioxide detectors to test for exhaled breath in lorry trailers. |
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| The company, selected through bids, should provide ready made food and drinks, souvenirs and ferry tickets at two points. |
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| The ferry could stimulate the construction of new low-rise hotels and bed and breakfasts along the existing lines of the former runways. |
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| In practice, it means that staff of airlines, ferry operators and railway companies must pay the cost to the employer of providing the benefit. |
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| The North Yorkshire Moors Railway provided a diesel locomotive and goods wagons to ferry water to the scene. |
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| The driver pointed a white-gloved hand in the direction of a small ferry boat waiting at the pier, its engine idling. |
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| The ferry crew commented that it was the biggest number of dolphins they had seen together at one time in Scapa Flow. |
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| He was the son of a London boatbuilder and waterman who used to ferry J. M. W. Turner across the Thames. |
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| You can travel easily between the seven Canary islands by plane, ferry or jetfoil. |
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| With the growth in rail travel and motor car ownership, there aren't as many people travelling by ferry anymore. |
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| The fast ferry the Lynx, which is being wet-leased on a temporary basis, arrives at the Port of Port-of-Spain yesterday. |
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| The first organised ferry service from Auckland to Devonport began in 1854 using sail or oar propelled whaleboats. |
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| Traditional places to try would be the sand flats in the area below the ferry and around Pimlico Island. |
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| His image is everywhere around this city and he's even had a fast ferry named after him. |
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| Off the ferry at Dover, quickly adjust wing mirrors and straight into town centre traffic. |
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| Getting the plane airworthy for a ferry flight was only one part of a very large puzzle. |
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| In the lower gallery there are videos of footage taken from a ferry in Sydney Harbour and a vaporetto in Venice. |
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| These days the ferry is just a rowing boat which takes roughly seven people at a time. |
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| The announcement has saved scores of jobs in the historic port city and saved hauliers from redirecting their loads to rival ferry ports. |
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| The workboat from RFA Diligence, which can hold up to 40 people, has been used to ferry personnel to and from the town. |
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| It is the country's worst maritime disaster and ranks as one of the world's worst ferry accidents of all time. |
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| A fast ferry from the Philippines is being refitted in Vancouver Shipyards for use as a fast passenger ferry between Nanaimo and Vancouver. |
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| A ferry that ran aground in hurricane-force winds off the west coast of Scotland stranding 100 people on board was refloated by two tugs today. |
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| A ferry forced aground by hurricane-force winds was refloated yesterday after more than 30 hours at sea. |
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| His wife's screams alerted crew members, who stopped the 763-ton ferry and launched its rescue craft. |
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| A young woman who is a stewardess on a ferry becomes a skipper on a racing yacht. |
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| She paused near the ticket booth, hoping the next ferry would be along soon. |
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| Start early by taking the train to Ardrossan and the short ferry hop to Bute. |
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| Then, the Kamov will grasp the standing trunk with a hydraulic grapple at the bottom of the long line, break it off and ferry it to the landing. |
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| In fact, it is a case of horses for courses but whatever you do, please give your ferry route some careful consideration. |
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| Travelling back to Orkney around 7.45 pm, the ferry lost power to its bow thruster and was left drifting in storm force winds. |
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| Hood was put in charge of the ferry service and the story is that he took the funds, hid them and shot through. |
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| One of the locations may not contain necessary connectors such as ferry routes or main roads. |
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| But hey, start your evening at Felix, take the Star ferry crossing to the island and head for dinner at the many restos in Lan Kwai Fung. |
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| The pull of a chain drags a ferry across the tiny Verugal River crossing, barely 100-metres wide. |
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| The trip begins by coach from local pick-up points to Harwich for the ferry crossing to the Hook of Holland and the onward journey to Amsterdam. |
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| The livestock contract has now been included as part of the lifeline ferry services which are currently out to tender. |
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| And now that he is older, she rides a ferry and a bus each way twice a week, so her 10-year-old can go to Hebrew school. |
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| The Staten Island ferries are decreasing in ridership, although there has been heightened demand at other ferry crossings. |
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| After the second world war, the yard lay in ruins but has since had heavy reinvestment and is now the top ro-ro ferry producers. |
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| The two new linkspans for the Stromness and Hatston ferry terminals have arrived in the county and expected in place by Wednesday. |
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| The unit will be used for car ferry traffic to allow the installation of a new permanent linkspan at the Stromness ferry terminal. |
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| Other solutions include chartering a ferry or fitting a floating linkspan onto the incomplete Scrabster pier. |
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| A successful test run of the new short sea ro-ro ferry service on Monday, means the new service is on schedule to a May 1 start. |
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| The ro-ro ferry had developed an engine problem due to a cylinder head gasket failing. |
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| He also has responsibility to ensure an adequate ro-ro ferry capacity to service the growing market for store cattle. |
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| Kunisada was born near Edo as the son of an affluent merchant with a ferry boat license. |
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| We will train in ferry gliding across the tide rips as well as holding our position in them. |
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| They had taken a ferry boat tour around the bay, and Grandma Evelyn had been scared to death that Helen would topple over the rail. |
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| The harbour makes an ideal starting point for ferry journeys to the islands of Hvar and Korcula. |
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| I have seen him on a ferry boat on the Hudson River joke with the Italian bootblacks in the Neapolitan dialect and with complete success. |
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| As motorways become more and more clogged up with traffic, a new generation of flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. |
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| A journey on a Brisbane River ferry highlights the contrasting character of adjacent pockets within the meandering river. |
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| At that time of day, of course, the ferry was already almost halfway to Montserrat. |
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| He has chosen to ferry his men by sea, to the ragged half-island between the York and the James. |
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| The SkyLab factory is based in Koh Si Chang, that small island 40 minutes by ferry boat from the Eastern Seaboard's Sriracha port. |
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| A ferry boat dropped us at a wooden quay to be met by a waiter bearing rum punch. |
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| The captain of the Staten Island ferry boat that crashed last October will avoid prosecution for lying to investigators. |
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| The journey into the city is unbeatable, travelling by ferry along the Grand Canal and berthing in the historic centre, near St Mark's Square. |
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| The proprietor of any ferry may require lawful ferriage to be paid previously to a passage over his ferry. |
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| One pier will be operated by the city as a ferry terminal, although it will be integrated into the museum complex. |
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| Ferry operators have welcomed the funding which will make the pier fully accessible and increase the efficiency of the ferry service. |
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| In the interview, Bill told of being on the ferry when the torpedo from the midget submarine turned it to matchwood and took 21 lives. |
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| At one point, they had their own bowling alley and soda fountain, and they took the ferry to school in San Francisco each weekday. |
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| The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth. |
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| Ferry operators are now to be regulated by a commissioner appointed under the Bill and funded by ferry operators. |
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| Residents from the idyllic small town of Greencastle have vowed to fight the ferry every step of the way. |
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| But the 50-year-old maintenance man has to mount his bicycle every day to catch the ferry over to Mull every night, where he lives in a caravan. |
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| That was the night Japanese submarines attacked Sydney, sinking the accommodation ferry Kuttabul and claiming the lives of 21 sailors. |
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| Snow storms and gale-force winds caused disruption across Greece yesterday, forcing road closures and shutting down ferry services. |
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| They will run through France on quiet country roads with overnight stops and after a rest on the ferry they will head to London. |
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| If the washing machine goes on the blink it has to be winched on to the ferry and it's gone for a fortnight. |
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| The defendants erected ferry terminals in the Thames, and, as a result, parts of the river bed silted up. |
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| Dervaig is around 1hr 20 min drive north-westwards from Craignure, Mull's port for car ferry arrivals from Oban. |
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| Police cars start arriving at the docks with lights flashing and sirens screaming, as irate ferry workers haul a body out of the water. |
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| The French Resistance sportive starts at Dover ferry port, where you'll take the Dover-Calais ferry. |
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| The afternoon's celebrations included a march down to the ferry launching site, the walking group led by piper Bill Jackson. |
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| Where Charles used to operate a small ferry the Salt River is now vacant land, a moonscape of cobbles and sand. |
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| On the forecastle deck the brass bell was struck, and with anchor down, the tenders were lifted out and readied to ferry passengers ashore. |
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| It's anchors away as the Fleetwood to Knott End ferry service casts off for its yearly service across the Wyre estuary. |
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| The ferry owner says some officials take backhanders to issue fitness certificates and licenses for vessels that are not shipshape. |
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| He fed me and rented the taxi to ferry us around so that we could shoot the London scenes. |
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| Hop onto a hovercraft or a car ferry and you are there within half an hour. |
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| The island, which was once attached to the mainland, is reached by a short ferry ride. |
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| Kenny Smith feared for his life on the Ullapool to Stornaway Calmac ferry during a horrendous storm. |
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| He had already printed out our tickets and the ferry awaited us, and the three people behind us. |
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| The work will involve removing the ferry from the water, renewing paintwork and combating the effects of corrosion. |
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| This shows that violent sabotage is by no means unknown in the passenger ferry industry. |
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| The ferry was two stories tall and had large paddle wheels perched on each side. |
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| Leaning sideways, she observed the enormous sea-green paddle wheel churning up the river behind the ferry and propelling the Varuna forward. |
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| So you can see that just picking any old ferry route and the cheapest possible crossing may not necessarily be the best plan. |
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| He has a checkered past as a park ranger, ferry naturalist, and Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakstan. |
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| It's the largest ferry in the world so you can leave your sea legs and sick bags at home, relax and enjoy the ten-hour crossing to Rotterdam. |
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| He did specify though that if it came down to a choice between a bridge or a ferry service he would opt for the bridge option. |
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| There is no bridge, and crossing is only possible by a ferry used to transport illegal timber to Vietnam and Cambodia. |
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| It saw active service as a troop transport, glider tug, freighter, ferry aircraft, and ambulance, and was used for dropping parachute troops. |
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| The waters of the Adriatic were rough and made the high-speed ferry list back and forth dangerously. |
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| To get to the coast is at least a day's ride, and the ferry crossing is another day. |
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| Coaches from Inverness to Scrabster are scheduled to fit in with the ferry sailings. |
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| Robben Island, for hundreds of years an international symbol of repression, now a shrine to the human spirit, has an hourly ferry service. |
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| The severe weather took its toll on Christmas travellers last week, with internal and external ferry sailings hit. |
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| A pair of longtail water taxis ferry divers, kit and the last of the supplies out to the mooring. |
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| There are ferry sailings to the Isle of Wight and to France and northern Spain. |
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| The giant orb plopped onto the path of an oncoming ferry and bobbed around like some wayward kind of multicoloured buoy. |
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| Finally, after a leisurely drive north to Portland, we boarded the ferry for the overnight crossing back to Yarmouth. |
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| The supply steamboats began to ferry all of them across to the west bank of the Missouri, where men of the Thirtieth Wisconsin Infantry were building a new post, Fort Rice. |
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| Already the Danish government, which had announced plans to scale down ferry operations when the bridge opened, has caved in to public pressure to maintain the service. |
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| Now I waited for my bush pilot, who was scheduled to ferry me even farther north to the edge of the Beaufort Sea to meet up with my backpacking partners. |
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| The captains of the capsized South Korean ferry and the Costa Concordia have set a new bar for maritime cowardice. |
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| Yet somehow or other she got herself to Holland, then made several cross-channel ferry trips until finally being allowed to land on British soil just as war broke out. |
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| We had been sitting inside because of the cold, but as the ferry began to pull into the dock, Maria went on deck and stood by the railing near the bow. |
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| He planned to start this jubilee holiday boarding the ferry from Ullapool to Stornoway, getting away from his work to the family bolthole on the west coast of Lewis. |
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| The only one with a regular revenue stream seemed to be Charon's ferry service, no shortage of dead people willing to pay the required obol to get across. |
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| More volunteers are drafted in just in time as the ferry spills out the first swell of festival-goers who immediately target our ticket office en-masse. |
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| In my time, Coronado was connected by ferry boat to San Diego. |
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| From the quay, the taxi which has transported me from the ferry port skirts the wide crescent of beach before twisting and turning all the way to the top of the island. |
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| We walked down to the waterfront, bought ice cream and sat on a bench on the edge of a pier, watching sailboats and cargo ships and the ferry go by. |
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| It was losing money largely because it had to ferry in extra staff to try to bring down the backlogs of unprocessed benefits claims and uncollected council tax. |
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| The entire population of 500,000 suffered from malaria, and the only functioning hotel in the country was a former Spanish Mediterranean ferry boat moored in the harbour. |
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| Panicked residents tried to ferry their loved ones to a medical clinic. |
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| The ABC bridge instead recalls the decks of ferry landings on the harbour. |
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| Everest also boasts a well-established support infrastructure of guides and Sherpas who set up tents, fix ropes, and ferry canisters of supplemental oxygen to the high camps. |
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| The only thing left was to ask Nick to buy an extra return ticket for the ferry Tuesday afternoon in the name of a Mrs S. Owen, but pay cash for this one. |
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| The bad weather also blocked roads and grounded helicopters as troops raced against the approaching Himalayan winter to ferry aid to remote areas. |
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| Another example is the Kei River which might not have the same exposed sandbars at low tide but is so shallow that the ferry cannot operate at spring low tide. |
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| Two Service airboats patrolled the sea all day, every day, to round up sick birds and ferry them back to the on-site pelican rehabilitation hospital. |
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| Fishermen now use deep-sea trawlers and sophisticated fishing equipment, while sampans ferry people between various points on the coastline along Victoria Harbour. |
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| The ferryman dies and Siddhartha is left to row the ferry himself. |
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| That is a busy bit of sea with lots of ships and intensive ferry traffic. |
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| Several workers were injured when they jumped into the water to try to stop a massive car ferry from docking. |
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| The black-market channels which ferry ivory from poachers are often the same used for illegal arms, drugs, and trafficked labor. |
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| As a precaution against a possible disturbance, the ferry was escorted by a police boat, its blue lights flashing. |
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| Ten hours after the fire broke out, the charred ferry was listing to one side as smoke poured out from a load of dried coconut on fire in the cargo area. |
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| The largest ship of its kind in the world, the new superferry berthed at the new ferry terminal, just after 8am yesterday following her overnight voyage from Rotterdam. |
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| He proposed keeping the ferry that had been instituted after the subway connection was knocked out. |
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| His incendiary rhetoric will be depressingly familiar to the CalMac ferry staff awaiting a resolution to their own increasingly acrimonious pay dispute. |
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| The haul road will be used to ferry materials from the quarry to the beach for the construction of the breakwaters and related marine infrastructure. |
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| We sit backed up in traffic behind Range Rovers, BMW roadsters and other upscale cars headed to the new ferry terminal connecting northern Jersey and lower Manhattan. |
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| The new ro-ro ferry service from St Margaret's Hope to Gills Bay in Caithness fell foul of the weather at the weekend, with all sailings on Saturday cancelled. |
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| Wind the clock forward half a millennia or so and Queen Elizabeth II wears the crown, and Hythe ferry is still shuttling passengers across Southampton Water. |
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| Terrified, they rushed their kids to the pier and tried to get them onto a ferry to take them across the river to the boatyard and, perhaps, safety. |
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| The woman's body was recovered from the water near the ferry linkspan after police had received a report at 2.30 am that she had fallen into the sea. |
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| And only a couple of weeks ago, divers also thought they had come across the wreck of the Darwin Princess, a 23 metre ferry last seen in Frances Bay. |
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| Plus, each base has its own set of resources, and so if you want to keep troops at an outpost or stronghold, you have to continually ferry food to them so they don't starve. |
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| There was no trouble on the ferry as it reached Manhattan and a few of the passengers boarded the subway to the protest uptown. |
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| The ferry was to have gone for its annual overhaul in March, but mechanical faults involving the hydraulics of one of the ship's propeller shafts made the work more pressing. |
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| A place where goods were traded and travellers could buy passage, be it a ferry across the Potomac or transport on to another Sathe port by sea or land. |
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| One of the gentry he used to ferry about, a decent cove who always treated him civilly, writes letters and the sentence is commuted to transportation. |
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| I checked in at the ferry terminal while my sister parked the car. |
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| In the summer, visitors who arrive by ferry number in the hundreds. |
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| After the long ferry journey, Puerto Natales appears as a cheerful huddle of brightly painted buildings clinging bravely to the shore of the Gulf of Almirante Montt. |
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| A passenger ferry operates across the river from the village of Dittisham to a point adjacent to the Greenway Estate. |
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| Teignmouth is linked to Shaldon, the village on the opposite bank, by a passenger ferry at the river mouth and by a road bridge further upstream. |
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| From there, the train was transported by rail ferry to the new Port of Baku in Alyat, 70 km south of Azerbaijan's capital, Baku. |
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| Reach the Aeolians by ferry from Naples, or Milazzo on Sicily. |
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| Riot police spray protestors with a water cannon on the first anniversary of the Sewol ferry disaster in South Korea yesterday. |
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| Thousands of Zairians heeded the warning and queued up for the 20-minute ferry ride home across the Congo River. |
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| Although you can see Lady Liberty for free from land, the short ferry ride to Liberty Island will bring you up close and personal. |
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| Shetland RFC's players left Shetland on Friday for the bus and ferry journey to Duns, Berwickshire. |
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| Starting in December, Washington State Ferries will be taking reservations for its popular San Juan Islands ferry runs from Anacortes. |
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| Marine One will ferry him to JFK Airport, where Air Force One awaits. |
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| For a more scenic journey, travel by ferry from Whittier or Valdez. |
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| The ferryman, shouting from the inlet, is immediately rude and obnoxious to Thor and refuses to ferry him. |
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| Regular ferry services to Ireland operate from Holyhead, Pembroke and Fishguard. |
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| By sea there is ferry transport, both local and international, including to Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium. |
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| Regular ferry services operate between the Scottish mainland and outlying islands. |
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| The number of ferry routes crossing the Strait of Dover has reduced since the Channel Tunnel opened. |
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| The Port of Dover and the port at Folkestone have many ferry services to France and though none currently run to Belgium. |
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| The ferry terminal at North Shields is accessed via the A187 from the Tyne Tunnel. |
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| At Swinford Bridge, a toll bridge, there was first a ford and then a ferry prior to the bridge being built. |
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| The first ferry across the estuary was introduced in medieval times by monks from Birkenhead Priory. |
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| The last ferry was the Aust Ferry, which closed in 1966 when the Severn Bridge opened. |
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| He drove against the train from Cannes to Calais, then by ferry to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public highways, and won. |
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| Portsmouth International Port is a commercial cruise ship and ferry port for international destinations. |
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| This service was criticised when the ferry Fortuny was detained in Portsmouth by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency for numerous safety breaches. |
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| There are also ferry vehicles designed to transfer crew members to and from the base to the orbiting manned spacecraft. |
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| The Manned spacecraft will consist of 3 habitation modules, 3 docking ports, and two ferry vehicles. |
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| The craft will dock together to enable the crew to transfer to the ferry vehicles for descent to the surface at a selected site. |
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| The crew will return to Martian orbit with the ferry vehicle and rendezvous and dock with the orbiting Manned spacecraft. |
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| The North Sea and the Baltic Sea are intertwined by various, international ferry links. |
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| Government owned Strandfaraskip Landsins provides public bus and ferry service to the main towns and villages. |
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| The Arctic Umiaq Line ferry acts as a lifeline for western Greenland, connecting the various cities and settlements. |
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| There are no roads between cities because the coast has many fjords that would require ferry service to connect a road network. |
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| Other ferry services are provided by operators serving outlying islands, new towns, Macau, and cities in mainland China. |
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| There is, however, a combined ferry and rail ticket between Belfast and cities in Great Britain, which is referred to as Sailrail. |
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| Belfast has a large port used for exporting and importing goods, and for passenger ferry services. |
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| Although the railway to New Holland closed in 1977, passenger and car traffic continued to use the pier until the end of ferry operations. |
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| Graemsay and Flotta are both linked by ferry to the Mainland and Hoy, and the latter is known for its large oil terminal. |
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| The Firth encompasses many Islands and Peninsulas and has twelve ferry routes connecting them to the mainland and each other. |
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| The largest all have thriving communities and regular ferry services connecting them to the mainland. |
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| The North Wales Coast Line links Crewe and Chester to Bangor and Holyhead, from where there is a ferry service to Ireland. |
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| Until then, Porthaethwy had been one of the principal ferry crossing points from the mainland. |
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| Holyhead Port is a busy ferry port handling more than 2 million passengers each year. |
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| In 1953, it was the scene of a serious maritime disaster, the sinking of the ferry Princess Victoria. |
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| Aberdeen Harbour is important as the largest in the north of Scotland and as a ferry route to Orkney and Shetland. |
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| Other ferry systems shuttle commuters between Manhattan and other locales within the city and the metropolitan area. |
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| A number of coastal railway stations in the United Kingdom serve to provide connections to ferry services to a number of destinations. |
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| Sea transport is crucial and a variety of ferry services operate between the islands and to mainland Scotland. |
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| The Cornish pilot gig was designed and built to ferry harbour and river pilots to and from ships in fierce coastal waters. |
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| Six main ferry services provide regular access to various outpost communities or shorten travel distances. |
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| There is passenger traffic from Helsinki and Turku, which have ferry connections to Tallinn, Mariehamn, and Stockholm. |
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| In modern times, Stranraer was a major ferry port, but the company have now moved to Cairnryan. |
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| There are links to various nearby islands by ferry and, since 1995, to the mainland by a road bridge. |
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| Sea transport is crucial and a variety of ferry services operate to mainland Scotland and between the islands. |
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| A call is made at Arinagour on Coll and once a week the ferry crosses to Castlebay on Barra. |
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| A passenger ferry traverses the loch to Tarbert from the slipway at Portavadie. |
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| There are ferry services that take passengers, vehicles and freight to Ireland, the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands. |
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| The line ends on the water's edge, near where the ferry connection used to run. |
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| Prior to the construction of the bridge, ferry boats were used to cross the Firth. |
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| In 1990 the ferry business was spun off as a separate company, keeping the Caledonian MacBrayne brand, and shares were issued in the company. |
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| On 29 May 2012, NorthLink Ferries Ltd lost the contract for provision of the Northern Isles ferry services to Serco. |
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| Since 2002 an overnight ferry service has linked Rosyth with Zeebrugge in Belgium. |
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| The agency is looking at ways to expand the ferry services to other European and domestic ports. |
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| Later, Zeebrugge's harbour was the scene of disaster when in 1987 the MS Herald of Free Enterprise passenger ferry capsized killing 193 people. |
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| The country is also connected to Ireland by car ferry services operating daily from Welsh ports, principally Holyhead. |
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| The Golden Gate Ferry is the other ferry operator with service between San Francisco and Marin County. |
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| Stena Line, Northern Europe's biggest ferry company, operates from the port, as do Irish Ferries. |
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| These connect with the Stena Line ferry to Rosslare Harbour in Ireland with a daily morning and evening service in both directions. |
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| A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. |
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| A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi. |
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| In 2013, this has been reduced, but a car ferry still departs from each harbor every 15 minutes during daytime. |
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| Due to the numbers of large freshwater lakes and length of shoreline in Canada, various provinces and territories have ferry services. |
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| This ferry service operates to other islands including the Gulf Islands and Haida Gwaii. |
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| Unlike riders on many other ferry services, Staten Island Ferry passengers do not pay any fare to ride it. |
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| This crossing is made possible by three ferry lines, Arnold Transit Company, Shepler's Ferry, and Star Line Ferry. |
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| The Malaysian state of Penang is home to the oldest ferry service in the country. |
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| Along the way, ferry commuters will get to see the skyline of George Town and Butterworth, as well as the Penang Bridge. |
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| It aims to connect South Gujarat and Saurashtra currently separated by 360 km of roadway to 31 km of ferry service. |
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| Since 1990 high speed Catamarans have revolutionised ferry services, replacing hovercraft, hydrofoils and conventional monohull ferries. |
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| Both these companies also compete in the smaller river ferry industry with a number of other ship builders. |
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| Foot ferries are small craft used to ferry foot passengers, and often also cyclists, over rivers. |
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| Restored, expanded ferry service in the Port of New York and New Jersey uses boats for pedestrians only. |
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| Examples of a current propelled ferry are the four Rhine ferries in Basel, Switzerland. |
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| Ferry boats often dock at specialized facilities designed to position the boat for loading and unloading, called a ferry slip. |
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| If the ferry transports road vehicles or railway carriages there will usually be an adjustable ramp called an apron that is part of the slip. |
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| A contender as oldest ferry in continuous operation is the Mersey Ferry from Liverpool to Birkenhead, England. |
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| Established in 1655, the ferry has run continuously since, only ceasing operation every winter when the river freezes over. |
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| Between 1938 and 1974 this route operated the South Steyne, billed at the time as the largest and fastest ferry of its type. |
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| Some of world's busiest ferry routes include the Star Ferry in Hong Kong and the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. |
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| There are no ports or ferry termini in the county but several of the coastal towns have facilities for yachts and small craft. |
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| The largest car ferry in the world, the Irish Ferries ship MV Ulysses which can carry up to 2000 passengers, runs on the Holyhead route. |
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| Train and ferry connections across the Irish Sea are promoted as an alternative to air. |
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| The village is important in maritime history, with two ferry services connecting Scotland and Northern Ireland. |
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| A preserved tram was on display in the Woodside ferry terminal booking hall. |
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| The major underground station in Birkenhead is Hamilton Square, the nearest station to the ferry terminal. |
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| The Twelve Quays ferry terminal allows a direct freight and passenger vehicle service to Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
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| The ferry itself was built by Thomas Grainger, a partner of the firm Grainger and Miller. |
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| When launched she was the world's largest car ferry in terms of vehicle capacity. |
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| On 26 February 2014 it was announced that Stena Line would acquire the Celtic Link ferry service from Rosslare to Cherbourg, France. |
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| On 21 November 2011, Stena Line relocated their ferry service to Belfast to a location north of Cairnryan Village. |
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| By the end of the 18th century the Wirral side of the Mersey had five ferry houses, at Seacombe, Woodside, the Rock, New Ferry and Eastham. |
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| By sea, Sicily is served by several ferry routes and cargo ports, and in all major cities, cruise ships dock on a regular basis. |
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| There are large ferry boats that link islands as well as fast ferries linking most of the islands. |
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| This was done to assure that all ferry traffic is directed to the motorway system as soon as possible. |
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| They were chartered to start the MyFerryLink ferry company on 20 August 2012, owned by Eurotunnel. |
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| Sweden also has a number of car ferry connections to several neighbouring countries. |
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| The ferry ports of Karlskrona and Karlshamn in southeastern Sweden serve Gdynia, Poland, and Klaipeda, Lithuania. |
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| Trelleborg is the busiest ferry port in Sweden in terms of weight transported by lorry. |
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| Sweden has two domestic ferry lines with large vessels, both connecting Gotland with the mainland. |
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| An exception is if traveling to Berlin by night train and the train ferry route between Trelleborg and Sassnitz. |
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| The island is well served by ferries, mostly from Athens, by ferry companies such as Minoan Lines and ANEK Lines. |
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| Many of these ferries are traditional reaction ferries, a type of cable ferry that uses the current flow of the river to provide propulsion. |
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| The dramatic coastline of Hoy greets visitors travelling to Orkney by ferry from the Scottish mainland. |
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| Both of Orkney's burghs, Kirkwall and Stromness, lie on the island, which is also the heart of Orkney's ferry and air connections. |
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| There is a ferry link to Scrabster in Caithness on the Scottish mainland as well as the Isle of Hoy. |
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| The main ferry terminal is at Rapness with regular sailings by Orkney Ferries to Kirkwall. |
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| Flights from North Ronaldsay Airport link the island with Kirkwall on the Orkney Mainland, as does a weekly ferry operated by Orkney Ferries. |
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| The island contains Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick, and is the centre of Shetland's ferry and air connections. |
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| At the southern end of Unst, above the island's ferry terminal, stands Belmont House. |
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| The ferry MV Princess Victoria was lost at sea in the North Channel east of Belfast with 133 fatalities, and many fishing trawlers sank. |
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| Free car parking facilities are available in front of the Calais ferry terminal and the maximum stay is three days. |
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| This has proven controversial for shipping and ferry operators across Europe. |
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| Orkney Ferries provide daily ferry crossings to Backaland on Eday from Kirkwall. |
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| The town is the administrative centre of the Dover District and home of the Dover Calais ferry through the Port of Dover. |
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| The Dover to Dunkirk ferry route was originally operated by ferry operator Norfolkline. |
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| As for the performances at the Great Volcano, they are now taking place in the old ferry terminal until the end of construction. |
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| Commercial ferry services across the Minch are operated by Caledonian MacBrayne. |
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| Dunkirk has a ferry with the firm DFDS with regular services each day to England. |
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| Dieppe has a ferry port with direct services to the English town of Newhaven, situated at the mouth of the River Ouse in East Sussex. |
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| There is keen competition between ferry operators and the Channel Tunnel Eurotunnel Shuttle. |
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| Serving this market has become big business around the major ferry ports of Calais, Boulogne, and Dunkirk in France, and Ostend in Belgium. |
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| The Kapitein Kok is a paddle steamer built in 1911 for ferry service on the river Lek. |
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| After a reception by the authorities in Boulogne, after 2 hours and 10 minutes the ferry left port still under Captain Hayward's command. |
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| Previously, Sally Ferries UK provided a passenger and car ferry service to Dunkirk. |
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| Until April 2013, Transeuropa Ferries operated a freight and car ferry between Ramsgate and Oostende. |
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