Trends · data through July 2026

Ferry Services in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 34 stores from 25 ferry services chains in the United Kingdom. Caledonian MacBrayne grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Wightlink and Hovertravel.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
25
Tracked stores
34
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked ferry services chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Caledonian MacBrayne and Wightlink sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Caledonian MacBrayne ▲1 -10.8%
2 W Wightlink - -11.9%
3 H Hovertravel ▼1 -29.4%
  • Birmingham Canal Boat Services
  • Northlink Ferries
  • Western Ferries
  • Wightlink
  • Gosport Ferry
  • Red Funnel
  • Caledonian MacBrayne
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

34 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Birmingham Canal Boat Services (1)
  • Northlink Ferries (1)
  • Western Ferries (1)
  • Wightlink (3)
  • Gosport Ferry (1)
  • Red Funnel (1)
  • Caledonian MacBrayne (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Caledonian MacBrayne 4
  • 2 W Wightlink 3
  • 3 H Hovertravel 3
  • 4 C CalMac Ferries 2
  • 5 P P&O Ferries logo P&O Ferries 2
  • 6 U Uber Boat 1
  • 7 T Torpoint Ferry 1
  • 8 K King Harry Ferry 1
  • 9 P Polruan Ferry 1
  • 10 B Bowness Nab 1
  • 11 C Caldey Island Ferry 1
  • 12 S Shields Ferry 1
  • 13 P Pentland Ferries 1
  • 14 M Maid of the Forth 1
  • 15 C Corran Ferry 1
  • 16 C Carmarthen Bay Ferries 1
  • 17 D Dartmouth Higher Ferry 1
  • 18 R Red Osprey 1
  • 19 W Wightlink Fastcat Terminal 1
  • 20 O Orkney Ferries Ltd 1
  • 21 R Red Funnel 1
  • 22 G Gosport Ferry 1
  • 23 W Western Ferries 1
  • 24 N Northlink Ferries 1
  • 25 B Birmingham Canal Boat Services 1

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