Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Ferry operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,649 ferry operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 58,322 professional contacts across them, including 13,120 with verified work emails and 3,241 with mobile numbers. The United Kingdom is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers ferry operators worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 7, 2026. Country and city lists for ferry operators follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest ferry operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,229 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We operate a transport network in and around Europe with an annual revenue of DKK 30bn and 15,100 full-time employees.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,690 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Arriva is the leading passenger transport operator in Europe, employing around 36,200 people and delivering 1.5 billion passenger journeys each year, with businesses across 11…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,960 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hi!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,321 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From our early beginnings with just two vessels operating on a single route, today we have grown to be one of the largest and most complex ferry systems in the world, with 37…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,409 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “P&O Ferries is a leading pan-European ferry and logistics group at the heart of Europe’s economy and a part of DP World, the leading provider of smart logistics solutions and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,405 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,286 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GNV operates on 33 maritime routes connecting Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Spain, France, Albania, and Malta.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,129 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Color Line AS is Norway's largest and one of Europe's leading companies in European short sea shipping with around employees across four countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,036 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Viking Line is a public limited company and a market-leading brand in passenger traffic on the northern Baltic Sea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 751 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ESVAGT was founded in 1981 with the purpose of making the sea a safe place to work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 690 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Caledonian MacBrayne is an award-winning ferry operator sailing to 30 island destinations across the west coast of Scotland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 670 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “City Cruises, part of the Hornblower Group, is a leading global provider of unforgettable dining, sightseeing, charters and private events, live experiences, and essential ferry…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 653 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Scandlines is a modern and innovative ferry operator with a green vision for the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 597 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Finnlines is a leading shipping operator of freight and passenger services in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Bay of Biscay.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 536 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Naviera Armas was founded in 1941 and has become the most important shipping company in the Canary Islands and, after the purchase of Trasmediterranea, the national leader in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 532 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Norway Yacht Charter AS and Båtservice Sightseeing AS is the largest operator and owner of sightseeing and charter boats in the inner Oslo Fjord.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 530 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tallink Silja Oy is part of AS Tallink Grupp.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 491 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Irish Ferries is the market leading ferry operator to and from the Republic of Ireland and also on Dover – Calais, connecting Britain to the Continent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 472 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MOBY è la Compagnia di navigazione leader in Italia per il trasporto di auto e passeggeri verso le isole.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 459 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Née en 2016, CORSICA linea est l’une des compagnies maritimes majeures en Méditerranée sur deux segments d’activité : le transport de fret et de passagers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 439 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TT-Line offers reliable, high quality and environmentally friendly transport solutions for more than 64 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 423 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Torghatten AS is a company based out of Norway.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 419 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Norled AS is one of Norway's largest ferry and express boat companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 408 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Marine Atlantic is a modern ferry transportation organization providing a daily ferry service between the ports of Port aux Basques, NL and North Sydney, NS.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 407 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Molslinjen is Denmark's largest domestic ferry company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: ferry operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names ferry operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of ferry operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name ferry operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Ferry operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 7, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among ferry operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 18 countries, largest first: the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Canada and 8 more. Country and city lists for ferry operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “ferry operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names ferry operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among ferry operators, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 13,120 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 7, 2026 and September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Ferry operators by location
18 lists · largest firstEvery Ferry operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Ferry operators based in the United Kingdom231
- Ferry operators based in the United States225
- Ferry operators based in Italy179
- Ferry operators based in France140
- Ferry operators based in the Netherlands111
- Ferry operators based in Spain101
- Ferry operators based in Germany94
- Ferry operators based in Sweden89
- Ferry operators based in Australia80
- Ferry operators based in Canada62
- Ferry operators based in Türkiye60
- Ferry operators based in Greece54
- Ferry operators based in Norway54
- Ferry operators based in Brazil48
- Ferry operators based in Finland32
- Ferry operators based in Ireland31
- Ferry operators based in New Zealand30
- Ferry operators based in Denmark28
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names ferry operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many ferry operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,649 ferry operators worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
DFDS, headquartered in Copenhagen, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most ferry operators?
The United Kingdom leads with 231 companies, followed by the United States (225) and Italy (179). Every ferry operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most ferry operators?
London leads with 22 headquartered companies, followed by Stockholm (19) and Istanbul (15).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 13,120 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,649 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 7, 2026 and September 14, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.