Editing Swansea (section)

===Sea===
[[File:SwanseaMarina.jpg|thumb|South Dock at Swansea Marina]]
[[Swansea Marina]] to the south of the city centre has berths for 410 leisure boats.<ref>{{cite web |title = Marina expansion plans get underway |publisher = City and County of Swansea |url=http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=11399
|access-date = 27 June 2008 |url-status = dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125191915/http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=11399 |archive-date = 25 January 2009 |df = dmy-all}}</ref> An addition 200 berths for leisure boats are located near the mouth of the River Tawe.<ref>{{cite web |title = Swansea Marina: Development Projects |publisher = City and County of Swansea |url = http://www.swanseamarina.org.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=9516 |access-date = 27 June 2008|url-status = dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124192740/http://www.swanseamarina.org.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=9516 |archive-date = 24 January 2009 |df = dmy-all
}}</ref> Further leisure boating berths are being constructed at the Prince of Wales Dock in the [[Swansea Docks]] complex. The Swansea Docks complex is owned and operated by Associated British Ports and is used to handle a range of cargo ranging from agribulks and coal to timber and steel.<ref>{{cite web |title=Port of Swansea |publisher=Associated British Ports |url=http://www.abports.co.uk/custinfo/ports/swansea.htm
|access-date=27 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514202801/http://www.abports.co.uk/custinfo/ports/swansea.htm |archive-date=14 May 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Swansea Docks consists of three floating docks and a ferry terminal.

[[Fastnet Line]] operated a [[Swansea Cork Ferry]] [[roll-on/roll-off]] service until November 2011, when the service was ended.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-16854680 |title=Swansea-Cork ferry: Fastnet Line to close service with loss of 78 jobs |work=BBC News |access-date=21 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119214943/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-16854680 |archive-date=19 November 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> A proposal for a catamaran-based passenger ferry service from [[Ilfracombe]] to Swansea, scheduled to begin in time for Easter in 2010, has yet to launch. It would have had two return trips a day taking around 50 minutes each way and carried cycles.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/8329714.stm |title=Spring launch for new fast ferry |work=BBC News}}</ref>