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The ferry, MV Concordia Bay, a 42.45 m twin-screw shallow draft (2.59 m) landing craft [17] runs between Port Howard in West Falkland and New Haven in East Falkland. [18] She has a deck, 30 m in length and 10 m in width which is sufficient for 16 one-ten Land Rovers (or equivalent) and accommodation for 30 passengers.
Arctic Umiaq Line (coastal ferry along the western coast of Greenland) Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department (operates one ferry across Bull Shoals Lake) Augusta Ferry (service between Higginsport, Ohio, and Augusta, Kentucky) Bay Ferries (eastern Canada and US, Caribbean Sea) BC Ferries (British Columbia, Canada)
The sea has been a significant trade and communications barrier between the two islands for centuries as there is no fixed crossing across it. In 2013, 7.6 megatons of trade was handled between British and Irish ports, and ferry crossings remain the most important link for heavy goods vehicles .
Irish Ferries' flagship, Ulysses, is currently the largest ROPAX ferry operating on the Irish Sea and when launched in 2001 was the world's largest car ferry in terms of car-carrying capacity. Other ships in the fleet include W.B. Yeats , Isle of Inishmore , Isle of Innisfree , Isle of Inisheer and the fast ferry Dublin Swift (preceded by HSC ...
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MV Glenachulish is a ferry operating a summer service between Glenelg, on the Scottish mainland, and Kylerhea, on the Isle of Skye. Built in 1969, she is the last manually operated steel turntable ferry in the world. [1] [2] [3] The route avoids the 36-mile (58 km) road journey via the Skye Bridge.
The company is owned by the Orkney Islands Council and was established in 1960 as the Orkney Islands Shipping Company. [1]In 1991, the Orkney Islands Shipping Company acquired a private sector ferry company also called Orkney Ferries, which had been established to compete on the short sea crossing from the Scottish mainland to the Orkney Islands, but which had not succeeded in establishing the ...
The shortest route between Glasgow and Belfast is the route used by the existing ferry service, that via Portpatrick/Stranraer (about 150 km (93 mi) from Glasgow) and Larne (about 35 km (22 mi) from Belfast), a coast-to-coast distance of 45 kilometres (28 mi). [18]