About
About Ferry Services
An independent timetable site for ferries in the Philippines, Canada, the United States and Nigeria. We publish the times, the crossing lengths and the fares, and send you to the operator to book.
What is Ferry Services?
A reference for ferry travel: 490 routes between 203 ports infour countries, each with its timetable, crossing time, operators and published fares. It started in August 2026 with the Philippine inter-island network and added British Columbia, Washington State, New York, Massachusetts and Lagos through September 2026.
| Country | Routes | Ports | Sailings a week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 197 | 74 | 2,909 |
| Canada | 85 | 41 | 4,127 |
| United States | 197 | 79 | 19,987 |
| Nigeria | 13 | 9 | 399 |
Is Ferry Services a ferry operator or a booking site?
Neither. We are not affiliated with any ferry line, we do not sell tickets and we take no commission. Every “book” link on the site goes to the operator's own website, so nothing here earns more when you pick one line over another.
Where do the times and fares come from?
From the operators' own published timetables. In British Columbia that is BC Ferries' printed seasonal schedules; in Washington, the timetable feeds that Washington State Ferries, Black Ball and Skagit County publish for journey planners; in New York and Massachusetts, the schedule feeds NYC Ferry, NY Waterway and the MBTA publish; in Lagos, LagFerry's own routes and schedules page; and in the Philippines, each line's schedule pages and booking systems, all checked against the lines themselves on 11 September 2026. Fares are shown with the date they were read. The full account, including what we do not cover, is on how we source schedules.
Who writes the words on these pages?
We do. The opening line of every route and port page, and its common questions, are generated from that page's own timetable and fares, so a figure in a sentence cannot disagree with the table beneath it. The notes about each crossing, port and ferry line are written for this site from the same data, and the facts about each line are checked on its own website, which the line's page names with the date of the check. We do not copy text from operators or from other timetable sites.
How current is it?
Pages rebuild every hour. Seasonal timetables are loaded when the operator publishes them, and where an operator dates its seasons, the route page says when the timetable on it ends and switches to the next one on the day it starts. Nothing here is a live feed: storms, fog, low tides and breakdowns cancel sailings at short notice, so check with the operator on the day.
What if something on the site is wrong?
Tell us. A report from someone who has just stood at the pier is the fastest signal we get. We check it against the operator's own information before changing anything, and a correction reaches the page within the hour.
What the site does not do
- Sell tickets or hold seats.
- Report live delays or cancellations.
- Estimate a time or a fare that no operator has published.