This provides a viable and more environmentally-beneficial alternative to long-distance trucking, and has been given greater emphasis not only by increasing road congestion but also by a shortage of truck drivers and no Likelihood of such problems being resolved in the foreseeable future. Moreover, rising interest among the population in using ferries not simply for necessary travel purposes but as a leisure activity in its own right is stimulating passenger traffic in certain areas and in turn leading to an elevation of onboard standards above the traditionally utilitarian levels that long pertained,
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