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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 5248530" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><h3><a href="https://www.ack.net/stories/ssa-approves-barge-service-for-ups,28422" target="_blank">SSA approves barge service for UPS - The Inquirer and Mirror</a></h3><p>United Parcel Service looks to be in luck this summer. The Steamship Authority board of governors voted unanimously Friday morning to approve a temporary license to barge UPS trucks from New Bedford to Nantucket, just one month after boat-line officials confirmed the shipper had missed the deadline for SSA truck reservations. this summer.</p><p></p><p>"If we don't do something for this year, the island of Nantucket and its businesses will suffer," SSA board member Peter Jeffrey said.</p><p></p><p>The barge service, run by 41 North Offshore LLC, will run weekdays from May 15-Oct. 19 this year. The approval from the SSA is for a one-year period.</p><p></p><p>The barge company made its proposal for 70 trips earlier this month after hearing UPS had lost out on hundreds of ferry spaces it normally books to transport its trucks to the island from Hyannis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 5248530, member: 1"] [HEADING=2][URL='https://www.ack.net/stories/ssa-approves-barge-service-for-ups,28422']SSA approves barge service for UPS - The Inquirer and Mirror[/URL][/HEADING] United Parcel Service looks to be in luck this summer. The Steamship Authority board of governors voted unanimously Friday morning to approve a temporary license to barge UPS trucks from New Bedford to Nantucket, just one month after boat-line officials confirmed the shipper had missed the deadline for SSA truck reservations. this summer. "If we don't do something for this year, the island of Nantucket and its businesses will suffer," SSA board member Peter Jeffrey said. The barge service, run by 41 North Offshore LLC, will run weekdays from May 15-Oct. 19 this year. The approval from the SSA is for a one-year period. The barge company made its proposal for 70 trips earlier this month after hearing UPS had lost out on hundreds of ferry spaces it normally books to transport its trucks to the island from Hyannis. [/QUOTE]
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