JOC Staff | Feb 20, 2013 3:57PM EST
Quest Navigation has leased a ship in anticipation of restarting ferry service between Portland, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and could, if awarded the contract, begin offering ferry service as early as this summer, according to Maine’s Bangor Daily News.
The Eliot, Maine-based company is one of only two companies that met Nova Scotia’s Jan. 24 deadline to submit a proposal to restart the ferry service. The other company is Baltimore-based engineering firm Maritime Applied Physics, which also has an office in Brunswick.
In September 2012, Nova Scotia committed $21 million over seven years to help subsidize ferry service across the Gulf of Maine, which was lost at the end of 2009 when Bay Ferries ceased operating The Cat, a high-speed ferry, because of tough economic conditions.