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A passenger terminal is a structure in a port which services passengers boarding and leaving water vessels such as ferries, cruise ships and ocean liners.Depending on the types of vessels serviced by the terminal, it may be named (for example) ferry terminal, cruise terminal, marine terminal or maritime passenger terminal.
A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A small passenger ferry with multiple stops, like those in Venice, Italy, is sometimes referred to as a water taxi or water bus .
Ferry terminal for the Peninsula Searoad Transport service, with cars leaving a ferry The largest ro-ro passenger car ferry in the world, MS Color Magic , in Oslo , Norway Bastø Fosen is a Norwegian ferry company that operates smaller ro-ro passenger car ferries on a short route between the towns Horten and Moss in Norway, connecting the two ...
A ferry slip is a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat or train ferry. A similar structure called a barge slip receives a barge or car float that is used to carry wheeled vehicles across a body of water. Often a ferry intended for motor vehicle transport will carry its own adjustable ramp - when elevated it acts as a wave ...
The San Francisco Ferry Building is a terminal for ferries that travel across the San Francisco Bay, a food hall [3] and an office building. It is located on The Embarcadero in San Francisco, California and is served by Golden Gate Ferry and San Francisco Bay Ferry routes. On top of the building is a 245-foot-tall (75 m) clock tower with four ...
The Battery Park City Ferry Terminal, is a passenger ferry terminal in Battery Park City, Manhattan, serving ferries along the Hudson River in New York City and northeastern New Jersey. It provides slips to ferries, water taxis, and sightseeing boats in the Port of New York and New Jersey . The floating dock [3] is moored at the foot of Vesey ...
The new duty free shop opened in the terminal on Thursday [BBC] A new duty-free shop has opened in Jersey. The shop in the Elizabeth Harbour Terminal is available for ferry passengers after they ...
The Whitehall Terminal is one of the ferry's two terminals, the other being St. George Terminal on Staten Island. The Whitehall Terminal opened in 1903 as a terminal for municipal ferry operations. It was originally designed nearly identically to the Battery Maritime Building; a connector between the two terminals was planned but never built.