Cruiseferry

However, similar ships traffic across the English Channel as well as the Irish Sea, Mediterranean and even on the North Atlantic.

Cruiseferries also operate from India, China and Australia.

In the northern Baltic Sea, two major rival companies, Viking Line and Silja Line, have for decades competed on the routes between Turku and Helsinki in Finland and Sweden's capital Stockholm.

Since the 1990s Tallink has also risen as a major company in the area, culminating with acquisition of Silja Line in 2006.

The term "cruiseferry" did not come into use until the 1980s, although it has been retroactively applied to earlier ferries that have large cabin capabilities and public spaces in addition to their car- and passenger-carrying capacity.