Rendering of the new ferry for Skagit County

Good news for green ferries in latest FTA grant announcement

In a first, $4 million of the $38 million available in the Federal Transit Administration’s latest round of Passenger Ferry Grants will be set aside specifically for low or zero-emission ferries, or

View of NY Harbor from hotel

FERRIES 2021 to meet in NYC area in November

Marine Log partners with Passenger Vessel Association to plan first ferry event in 18 months Set to take place at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City on the Hudson, November 9-10 in Jersey

Rendering of the new ferry for Skagit County

Skagit County releases RFP for electrical systems integrator for new all-electric ferry

Skagit County, Washington, Public Works and Seattle-based vessel designer Glosten are seeking proposals from electrical integrators to provide the vessel and shore electrical systems and the automated charging plug for the all-electric

NYC Ferrycommuter ferry

U.S. ferries carried 131.6 million passengers in 2019

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released data sets from its 2020 National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO). Key findings from the 246 ferry operators that responded

Two Stena RoRo E-Flexer vesselss

Stena RoRo orders two more E-Flexers

The day after announcing that it was ordering a further E-Flexer RoPax for charter to Canada’s Marine Atlantic, Stena RoRo today reports that it has ordered another pair from Chinese shipyard CMI

Bow of E-Flexer

Marine Atlantic to charter in dual-fuel RoPax

Marine Atlantic has reached an agreement to charter in a new RoPax ferry from Sweden’s Stena RoRo. The vessel will be the tenth E-Flexer vessel to be ordered by Stena RoRo at

CG Railway president Hoffman Lijeron with new rail ferry

PODCAST: CG Railway president Hoffman Lijeron on new rail ferries

Two new rail ferries, the Maya and the Cherokee, will enter Gulf of Mexico service this year for CG Railway LLC (CGR), a joint venture of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. and SEACOR

battery hybrid ferry

COVID-19 dents BC Ferries’ revenues and ridership

Canada’s largest ferry operator, Victoria, B.C., headquartered BC Ferries, today released its results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 (fiscal 2021). Not surprisingly, the results reveal that the COVID-19 had

Artist’s rendering of the Medstraum ferry

World’s first fully-electric fast ferry starts construction

The Fjellstrand shipyard on Norway’s west coast has kicked off construction on a 31 meter long by 9 meters wide catamaran that will be the world’s first fully-electric, zero-emission ferry to be

Ferrygrounding

Seastreak ferry runs aground in Brooklyn

The largest ferry in the Seastreak fleet, the 150-foot Commodore ran aground in Bushwick Inlet, in Brooklyn, New York, Saturday evening. Coast Guard, New York City Fire Department (FDNY), and New York

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