Channel ferry

Ferry service carrying cars, passengers, and goods lorries across the English Channel between England and France and Holland. Several operators run roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ships, now in competition with the Channel Tunnel. The service began in World War I as a train ferry, constructed early in 1918 for the rapid movement of vehicles, tanks, guns, and trainloads of stores across the English Channel.

The key English ports from which ferries operate are Dover, Folkestone, Southampton, Portsmouth, Newhaven, and Harwich.