
The Steamship Authority board of governors will hold a special meeting next week to vote on a contract to convert three newly purchased vessels into freight ferries.
Mark Higgins, who starts his new job early next month, is the first to hold the position, which was created at the request of the boat line board of governors following a comprehensive study of SSA operations in 2018.
The lowest bid to do the work is about $20 million for each boat, general manager Robert Davis said Tuesday.
Vineyard Steamship Authority governor James Malkin was reappointed to a second three-year term by the Dukes County Commission Wednesday.
To comply with flood-zone building codes, contractors are raising the Steamship Authority's Woods Hole terminal site by several feet.
Two newcomers are challenging the sitting Martha’s Vineyard representative on the Steamship Authority’s board of governors.