Isle of Sark Shipping
The lifeline route to Sark — booking, boarding and cargo on one ledger, to an island with no airport and no cars.
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BORA Systems is a ferry operations platform built in Tallinn, Estonia — 33 modules across 6 functional categories, each on its own microservice with a local API. Certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and GDPR-compliant. As of 2026, in daily service across three regions: the Baltic, the Channel Islands and the Persian Gulf.
What is the route?
Sark has no airport and no cars. The shipping route is the island's lifeline, and it carries residents, visitors and freight on the same crossings. Isle of Sark Shipping runs 8 crossings a day in season on 1 year-round lifeline route and carries more than 100,000 passengers a year.
BORA runs the booking, the boarding validation and the cargo on one ledger, so a small operation serving a small island is not also running three separate systems.
What runs on BORA here?
Isle of Sark Shipping runs on BORA Systems: booking and sales across the passenger website, the agency interface and onboard, boarding validated at the ramp by Access control, and revenue drawn straight from live operations by Reporting — every channel writing into one shared ledger.
Boarding is validated on handheld devices that stay fully functional offline and reconcile when the link returns, so a lifeline crossing is not blocked by a dropped connection. Access control is built to the ISPS Code — adopted by the IMO in 2002 and in force since 2004 — so the departure manifest meets the security obligations a passenger vessel carries.
Further reading on the BORA blog: Why boarding validation has to work offline and What a lifeline ferry route needs from its booking system.
In numbers
crossings in season
year-round lifeline route
passengers a year
Frequently asked questions
Where does Isle of Sark Shipping operate?
Isle of Sark Shipping operates in the Channel Islands, running the lifeline route to Sark, an island with no airport and no cars. On BORA Systems it runs 8 crossings a day in season on 1 year-round lifeline route and carries more than 100,000 passengers a year.
Does boarding keep working when the connection drops?
Yes. On the Sark route BORA validates boarding on handheld devices at the ramp that stay fully functional offline and reconcile once the link returns, so a lifeline crossing to Sark is not blocked by a dropped connection.
See how Isle of Sark Shipping runs on BORA
A 30-minute walkthrough on live data, from a web booking to the ramp closing.
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