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A ferry is a form of transport, characteristically a boat or ship, but also other forms, carrying passengers and sometimes their vehicles. Ferries are also used to carry shipment(in Lorries and sometimes empowered freight containers) and even railroad cars. Most ferries manage on regular, everyday, return services. A foot-passenger ferry with a lot of stops, such as in Venice, is also known as waterbus or water taxi .Ferries form a part of the public transport systems of many water's edge cities, allow direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than bridges or tunnels.

Wood is the xylem tissue of woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. Wood from the latter is only produced in small sizes, reducing the diversity of uses. Wood is a hygroscopic, cellular and anisotropic material. Dry wood is composed of fibers of cellulose (40%–50%) and hemicellulose (20%–30%) held together by lignin (25%–30%).Artists can use wood to create delicate sculptures.Wood has been used by man for millenia for many purposes, being many things to many people. One of its primary uses is as fuel. It may also be used as a material, for making artworks, boats, buildings, furniture, ships, tools, weapons, etc. Wood has been an important construction material since humans began building shelters, and remains in plentiful use today. Construction wood is commonly known as timber in International English, and lumber in American English. Wood may be broken down and be made into chipboard, engineered wood, hardboard, medium-density fibreboard, oriented strand board, paper or used to make other synthetic substances.

A bag is a container that is typically used for storing or holding something. Bags are non-rigid, usually made of paper, cloth, thin plastic or some other flexible material. A bag may have one or two handles or none at all. Sometimes a money bag or travel bag has a lock. Sachets may be fabric bags that are filled with pot pourri and tied off with ribbons. Youth giving a purse to a sitting courtesan the word probably has its origins in the Norse word baggy. Although paper had been used for purposes of wrapping and padding in ancient China since the 2nd century BC, the first use of paper bags in China came during the later Tang Dynasty.Bags vary from small ones, like purses to large ones for use in traveling like a suitcase. Cheap disposable paper bags and plastic shopping bags are very common in the retail trade as a convenience for shoppers, and are often supplied by the shop for free or for a small fee. Customers may also take their own shopping bags to the shop. There are environmental concerns regarding use and disposal of plastic shopping and trash bags.