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SHORTSEA SHIPPING hen the cities of St. Petersburg, Tampa, and Hillsborough and Pinellas Coun-

W W ties launched their collaborative pas- senger ferry service in November of last year, the effort highlighted the awakening of a local yearning for a better, cleaner and perhaps safer transportation for the citizens of the Tampa Bay area. St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman told MarineNews in December, “At various times over the course of many, many years, the idea would be raised by community leaders, or elected of