Maine Is Building Solar-Powered Ferries to Bring Back Service on a Massachusetts River

Maine is building solar-powered ferries to bring back service on a Massachusetts river

Lyman-Morse has been awarded a contract to design and build a fleet of solar-powered ferries that will restore regular passenger service to a portion of the Merrimack River in Massachusetts for the first time in nearly a century. The Thomaston-based boatbuilder is set to build three aluminum, solar-assisted electric ferries for MeVa Transit, the public transportation agency that serves the Merrimack Valley region of Massachusetts. The project is…

Ferries on the Merrimack Coming

MERRIMACK RIVER – By the summer of 2027, a fun outing would be to hop on one of three brightly colored Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority (MeVa) ferries and ride for free up and down this powerful river. The solar-powered catamarans will be 33 feet long and carry 22 passengers making several stops along the river, including Amesbury, Haverhill, Newburyport and Salisbury. “Our vision is to integrate all transportation services, buses, va…