car ferry

Floating auto transport

A car ferry is a boat or ship designed to transport vehicles and their passengers across a body of water.

Car ferries range from small vessels crossing rivers and harbors to large ships crossing seas: We took the car ferry from Dover to Calais.

Unlike passenger-only ferries, they have vehicle decks where cars drive on and off.

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vessel · embark · ship · vehicle · ramp · drive on · lower deck · island hopping · cargo · boat · automobile · seawater · strait · nautical · sea crossing · open water · harbor · loading

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cargo type

car ferrypassenger ferry

Vessel transporting people across water

foot ferry · water taxi · hydrofoil · cargo ship · cruise ship

crossing method

car ferrybridge

Structure spanning an obstacle

tunnel · undersea tunnel · causeway · Channel Tunnel · floating bridge

Family

carry, car, ferry, transfer, cars, carriage, ferrying, ferryboat, ferryman

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Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G