The new ferry service between India and Sri Lanka now offers passengers the ability to drive across, the head of the company running the service was quoted saying in Lanka Business Online.”Our aim was to keep the price much less than that of airlines which is what we done,” said P K Thimmayya, chief executive of Flemingo Liners, a ferry passenger and cargo service company.According to Thimmayya, travellers can drive across in their own vehicles using the ferry ‘Scotia Prince’ which began operating in early June.The nine-deck ferry operates twice a week between Colombo and the south Indian port of Tuticorin and can accommodate 1,044 passengers, around 300 tonnes of cargo and vehicles.”The world over people can drive abroad. There already exists a system where travellers can take a six month permit and drive through,” Thimmayya told LBO in an interview.Travellers wanting to take vehicles across can get the required approvals from the automobile association in their country.”We are extremely enthusiastic to do this,” Thimmayya said. “It is an area which will attract an entirely new set of people and services.”Thimmayya said passenger load factors on the ferry were still not high enough for breakeven and estimates it would take a couple of years for the service to become profitable.
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