Editing Searoad Ferries (section)

===MV ''Sorrento''===
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[[File:The Searoad Queenscliff-Sorrento Ferry 'MV Sorrento', Queenscliff, jjron, 06.07.2010.jpg|thumb|[[MV Sorrento (2001)|''MV Sorrento'']] docking at [[Queenscliff, Victoria|Queenscliff]]]]
[[File:Aerial perspective of the Searoad Ferry, the most effecient source of transport between Port Philip's Heads. March 2023.jpg|thumb|Aerial perspective of the Searoad Ferry, the most efficient source of transport between Port Philip's Heads. March 2023.]]
Traffic using the ferry service continued to grow though the 1990s, carrying about 110,000 cars/trucks/coaches/motorcycles and 600,000 passengers each year.<ref name="twelvemil"/> As a result, in 2000 it was decided to purchase a second ferry, enabling a doubling in the service frequency.

The [[MV Sorrento (2001)|''MV Sorrento'']] was built in [[Launceston, Tasmania|Launceston]], [[Tasmania]], [[Australia]] at a cost of $12 million, and was similar in size and appearance to the existing ferry. Minor differences between the two include an elevator from the car deck to the top deck, a new lounge at the front called the 'Portsea Lounge', and the number of exterior windows at the top would be in groups of three, not in fours.

The increased frequency resulted in the closure of the [[Queenscliff, Victoria|Queenscliff]] - [[Portsea, Victoria|Portsea]] - [[Sorrento, Victoria|Sorrento]] passenger ferry service in the early 2000s.