Ceuta receives high numbers of ferries each day from Algeciras in Andalusia in the south of Spain, along with Melilla and the Canary Islands. The closest airport is Sania Ramel Airport in Morocco. A single road border checkpoint to the south of Ceuta near Fnideq allows for cars and pedestrians to travel between Morocco and Ceuta. An additional border crossing for pedestrians also exists between Benzú and Belyounech on the northern coast. The rest of the border is closed and inaccessible. There is a bus service throughout the city, and while it does not pass into neighboring Morocco, it services both
SS Commissaire Ramel SS Commissaire Ramel SS "Commissaire Ramel" was a French cargo-passenger ship, launched in 1920, that was sunk in the Indian Ocean by the during World War II. The ship was built by the "Société Provençale de Construction Navale" in La Ciotat under the name "General Duchesne", but was renamed "Commissaire Ramel" before launching, in honour of Paul Ramel, the purser of the ship , who was lost when his ship was torpedoed on 11 February 1917, and posthumously awarded the légion d'honneur. Displacing 16,620 tonnes, and 8,814 gross register tonnage, the ship was 152.50 metres long, with a beam of