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Channel ferry

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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.
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Still, I've booked a Channel ferry for the week after next to see for myself.
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the company's English Channel ferry business, faced the full force of Eurotunnel competition for the first time in 1995 and came through with "flying colors".
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Whether or not this is so, it is true that the port has gradually declined; and although it still accommodates cruise liners, much of the cross channel ferry business has been transferred to Portsmouth and Dover, leaving empty tracts of waterfront that once were bustling with activity.
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