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PASSENGER VESSEL MARKETS

U.S. Ferries Are Safer, but Regulatory Burdens Grow

By Susan Buchanan n recent years, ferries have been in the spotlight, in According to the most recent federal data from the Bu- part because of growing mass transit needs and in- reau of Transportation Statistics in 2010, U.S. ferries car-

Icreased road congestion, but also because of concerns ried nearly 103 million passengers and 37 million vehicles about the deadly South Korean ferry sinking last April. We in 2009. “I believe that the results of the 2014 National asked Captain Terri Bernstein, the Passenger Vessel Asso- Census of Ferry Operators by the BTS will show a sub- ciation’s 2014 President, about the industry’s status in the stantive expansion since then,” Bernstein said. That report

United States. Based in Alexandria, VA, the PVA has over is being