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Casco Bay Lines' new ferry will be powered by a diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system. Elliott Bay Design Group rendering

Casco Bay Lines' hybrid ferry fleet update

Benjamin Hayden

Mackinac Island Chippewa Ferry. Mackinac Island Ferry photo

Mackinac Island ferry receives grant to convert to electric power

Benjamin Hayden

Rendering of the new, hybrid Governors Island ferry. Credit: Elliott Bay Design Group

New hybrid ferry planned for New York's Governors Island

Benjamin Hayden

The 330'x70' Sandy Ground was on a routine 5 ½-mile trip with 868 passengers aboard when the crew saw fire in the engine room. Photo: NY Waterway/Baris Barlas

Mariners worked together to keep passengers safe during last year’s NY ferry fire

The NY Waterway ferry Thomas Jefferson on the Hudson River in New York. Photo by Kirk Moore

NY Waterways to convert ferry engines from diesel to hybrid propulsion

WorkBoat Staff

BC Ferries gets LNG trucked to it from two land-based facilities. BC Ferries rendering

To LNG or not to LNG

Bruce Buls

The new ferry will be powered by twin Cummins QSL9 Tier 3 marine engines with ZF Marine CruiseCommand control system and transmissions. Electrical power shall be provided by a Cummins Onan MDK generator. Metal Shark photo

Metal Shark to build new vehicle ferry for Fire Island, N.Y.

WorkBoat Staff

First hybrid electric water taxi passenger ferry in Puget Sound. All American Marine photo

DOT announces more than $45 million in passenger ferry grants

WorkBoat Staff

Casco Bay Lines' new ferry will be powered by a diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system. Elliott Bay Design Group rendering

Casco Bay Lines to build new diesel-electric hybrid ferry

WorkBoat Staff

Kitsap Transit purchased the 320-passenger Solano from the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) on Feb. 19 for about $1 miilion. WETA photo

Kitsap Transit purchases catamaran ferry from San Francisco

WorkBoat Staff

BAE's 'quiet revolution' aims to make transition to zero emissions easier

Jon Foster