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Article: Private Bar Harbor firm to keep ferrying cruise ship passengers
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- August 6, 2009
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BAR HARBOR - In the face of strong opposition from Ocean
Properties Ltd. and people who work with the company, the Town
Council voted 4-3 Tuesday night not to resume routine cruise ship
tender operations at the municipal pier.
Tenders from cruise ships, which have been estimated to inject
millions of dollars into the area economy each summer, have not
landed at the municipal pier since 2002, when federal port security
laws went into effect in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks.
Instead, thousands of cruise ship passengers are ferried by small
boats to the pier owned by Ocean Properties.
Earlier this year, after being approached by cruise ship
companies about the option of ...