Crossings happen throughout the day all-year round including weekends, public holidays, and night services.

Gollcher & Sons Ltd provided an official mail service using the vessel Gleneagles.

In the late 1920s and 1930s Bernard Zammit and the Joseph Gasan, Giovanni Dacoutros & Grech Family started their own ferry services.

E. Zammit & Sons Ltd was formed in 1966, and by 1970 it was the only company offering ferry services across the Gozo Channel.

The MV Għawdex began operating services to Sicily from 1981 onwards, but these stopped in 1995.