The ferry company apologized for inconveniencing customers.
||| FROM BOSTON.COM |||
The Steamship Authority apologized for inconveniencing customers over the weekend after cancelling several weekend trips due to staff shortages.
“Due to a crew shortage, the M/V Woods Hole will not run today starting with the 12:20 p.m. trip onward,” the Steamship Authority wrote on Saturday.
The Steamship Authority is the largest ferry service to the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket from Cape Cod.
Passengers with vehicle reservations on the cancelled trips were told to report to the terminal at their scheduled reservation time to be placed on priority standby and they would travel as soon as space was available.
In a Sunday update, the company wrote on Facebook that impacted passengers on Saturday “were accommodated by the end of the day.” But Sunday brought more cancellations and delays.
Because several ferries ran later than scheduled on Saturday, early-morning trips on Sunday were delayed or cancelled to “allow our crews to get their U.S. Coast Guard-mandated rest period,” according to the company.
The 10:45 a.m. and noon trips of the M/V Island Home were cancelled on Sunday “to allow the vessel to get back on its published schedule.”
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