PORTLAND (AP) — Two U.S. companies have submitted bids to operate ferry service between Portland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to the Canadian province’s government, which is willing to provide as much as $21 million in subsidies.
Neither Quest Navigation Inc. of Maine and Maritime Applied Physics Corp. of Baltimore currently offer ferry service. Nova Scotia’s government is expected to take a month to review the bids.
The Portland Press Herald says Bay Ferries Ltd., which operated a high-speed catamaran on the route from 2006 to 2009, did not submit a proposal.
Maritime Applied Physics Corp. is an engineering and manufacturing firm with an office in Brunswick, Maine.
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