A working ferry network along the middle and upper river

The Gambia Ferry Services Company, a subsidiary of the Gambia Ports Authority formed under the Companies Act 2013, operates eight crossing points along the river and its tributaries. Alongside the Banjul-Barra crossing at the river mouth and the former TransGambia crossing at Farafenni-Soma, its own list names Janjanbureh, linking Lamin Koto on the north bank to the island formerly called MacCarthy Island, together with crossings at Kaur, Barajally, Bansang, Basse and Fatoto. ^{[river-ferries-gm]}

The company describes Banjul-Barra as its busiest crossing, running close to continuously, and states that the TransGambia route was historically its second-busiest until the Senegambia Bridge opened in 2019, after which the company took on toll-collection management for the bridge itself. Its stated mission is to connect people and places across the river and its tributaries, a role that for Janjanbureh, Kaur, Bansang, Basse and Fatoto continues a much older pattern of river crossings touched on elsewhere in this archive's colonial-era travel sources. ^{[river-ferries-gm]}