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Direct Ferries is a UK based ferry travel aggregator service that provides bookings for ferry crossings across the globe. Its main crossings include mainland Europe, such as the France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Germany; North Africa, such as Morocco and Algeria; Asia, such as China, Russia, Cambodia and Hong Kong; and the Americas, such as the United States, Canada, Peru and ...
Société des traversiers du Québec (Quebec, Canada) [14] Staten Island Ferry (New York City) The Steamship Authority (Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts) Texas Department of Transportation (operates two ferries, one at Galveston, Texas, and the other at Port Aransas, Texas) Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division (operate three Toronto ...
There are four ferries each of 16 coach capacity capable of making three trips per day. [19] Other sources describe the ferries' capacity as 450 tons (9 to 14 railcars). [20] Tekirdağ-Derince Ferry: The ferry service had started at the end of 2013 connecting Europe to Asia by rail. [17]
The largest ferries of Europe Ship Length GT Passengers Speed Built Builder Company Registry Normal route(s) Notes Color Magic: 223.70 m (733.9 ft) 75,156 2,812 22 kn (41 km/h; 25 mph) 2007 Aker Finnyards Turku Shipyard / Rauma shipyard, Finland: Color Line Norway: Oslo - Kiel Largest ferry in the world in terms of gross tonnage. Color Fantasy
HSC Villum Clausen On the way from the shipyard of Austal in Australia to Rønne in Denmark the ferry had a top speed of 47.7 knots and an average of 43.4 knots, and on February 16 and 17, 2000 it had reached 1,063 sea miles within 24 hours, thereby setting the world record which was then written in the Guinness Book of Records.
Ferries of the Owen Sound Transportation Company (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Ferries of Ontario" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
A very rare type are cable-ferries that are not propelled by themselves but rather are pulled from land side. An example of such a cable ferry was the Kungälv – Fästningsholmen ferry in Sweden. [2] [3] Today, the Jonen ferry in the Netherlands is pulled by a winch on the banks. These cable ferries can be operated electrically without having ...
The HSC Virgen de Coromoto is an 86 m (282 ft) fast catamaran ferry operated by Consolidada de Ferrys C.A. in Venezuela.It was built in Australia in 2004 for a fast ferry service on Lake Ontario between Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Rochester, New York, United States.