Those that sail overnight have restaurants, bars and cabin accommodation, cramped but clean. Conventional ships are slower but carry vehicles and sail year-round. The fastest ferries are hydrofoils for foot-passengers only, but these are prone to cancellation in bad weather, and may not sail in winter. Trucks use them, to shift stuff that is too bulky to fly yet too small for a freighter consignment, and islanders depend upon them. Lots of people nowadays fly, but ferries remain an important part of Mediterranean life, especially for small islands that can't support an airport. See also the Ferryhopper Aferry, and Direct Ferry websites, which give operators, times and fares for all but the most local routes. Ferry frequencies referred to are for "shoulder season" of late spring / early autumn obviously there are fewer in winter and more in the summer holiday season.
It provides only basic details, with more detail on the "Get in" pages of the relevant ports. This page gives an overview of ferry services in the Mediterranean, including associated seas such as the Adriatic, Black Sea and Sea of Marmara.
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