An independent guide to scheduled crossings. Nothing on it is for sale.
This is the English side of Lauttainfo Italy, aimed at travellers who do not read Italian; a separate Italian edition sits at the root of the site. It belongs to lauttainfo.com, which began with the road ferries of Finland and now runs separate guides for several countries. Nobody behind it works for a shipping line, a port authority, a council or a tourist board, no ticket is sold here, and the adverts on the pages pay the costs.
Who runs a crossing in Italy varies a lot. The public navigation service operates the big northern lakes, private companies sail the Strait of Messina and the island routes, and some island councils set their own landing charge. Our figures come from whoever publishes the timetable and the fares; we archive a copy on the day we read it and print that day beside every table.
What catches visitors out is seldom the departure time itself. More often it is a lake village where cars and foot passengers use different piers, a city where boats for the same coast leave from two different quays, or a line that simply stops for the winter. Pages are written so those points are clear even if you speak no Italian.
A figure we cannot pin to an official source is not printed. That covers two operator documents that disagree, and prices found only through a ticket agency; in both cases the page tells you what is missing and why. Italian lake timetables are reissued several times a year, so every crossing carries a last-verified date and a deadline for its next review.
Spotted a timetable or a price that is out of date? Email [email protected], say which crossing and what you saw at the pier, and we will compare it with the operator's own documents before changing the page.