The current car carrying fleet of fast ferries, mainly catamarans, includes some impressive vessels, but this relatively infantile sector of the passenger shipping industry has been fraught with a variety of challenges that has seen a number of vessels laid-up or discarded, comments Bill Moses. The former Hoverspeed boss says that: "Technological problems, to a large extent born of early prototypes, the rising cost of fuel and the corresponding unwillingness of passengers to pay a premium for faster crossings, has certainly hampered the sector's global advancement despite some impressive examples.
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