SSA Audit Prompts Cybersecurity Training Changes

The Steamship Authority is tightening its cybersecurity training program and policies around free ferry rides for employees and their families after a recent audit of the ferry line.

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Steamship Sets New Reservation Opening Date

The general public will be able to book summer vehicle reservations to the Vineyard on Feb. 14, starting at 8 a.m. – two weeks after the reservations were previously scheduled to open. 

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Technical Problems Put SSA Opening Day Reservations on Hold

The ferry line announced the indefinite delay last week, saying it had technical challenges Tuesday during the Head Start summer reservation openings for residents on the Vineyard and Nantucket.

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Steamship Authority Approves Budget for Hybrid Ferry Design

The budget allocates nearly $400,000 in 2024 for the hybrid ferry, which many residents and officials have been pushing for in recent years to reduce the ferry line’s emissions in the face of climate change. 

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SSA Headstart Reservations Open Jan. 16

Ferry customers whose vehicles are enrolled in the Steamship Authority’s 2024 Excursion and Preferred programs may make summer travel reservations beginning at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16, when the boat line opens its Headstart program for the Martha’s Vineyard route.

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Five Years After Audit, SSA Cites Step By Step Improvement

In 2018, an exhaustive review found the Steamship Authority needed to make sweeping changes. Five years on, the ferry line has made progress but still has work to do.

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Steamship Oversight Boards Mull Management Succession

The Vineyard’s representative on the ferry line’s governing board said this week that the board and its advisory council have begun discussing a succession plan for the authority’s top job.

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Judge Upholds Steamship's Covid Vaccine Policy

The Steamship Authority workers that have been challenging the ferry line’s Covid vaccine policy have had their arguments again rejected by a federal judge.

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Steamship’s Technology Debt is Overdue, IT Expert Warns

The Steamship Authority needs to overhaul its information technology systems as soon as possible, according to a long-awaited report presented Tuesday at a joint meeting of the boat line board of governors and port council.

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Falmouth Senator Calls for Steamship Audit

In a state committee hearing Tuesday, state Sen. Susan Moran told fellow legislators she requested that state auditor Diana DiZoglio conduct an audit of the authority in order to help “identify the current weaknesses of the authority as well as provide transparency and effective oversight.”

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