The Steamship Authority’s Port Council learned Tuesday morning that the price of converting recently acquired offshore supply vessels into ferries has escalated due to steel cost increases. SSA general manager Robert Davis said price assumptions on the conversions were made months ago. “We’ve been revisiting those assumptions, and with supply chain issues and the like, […]
Updated On Tuesday at a joint meeting of the Steamship Authority’s board and Port Council, former HMS Consulting president John Sainsbury, who led a 2018 deep dive into the ferry line that resulted in the transformational HMS report, returned to provide further assistance. SSA general manager Robert Davis said Sainsbury, now managing partner of Maritime […]