Ridership numbers drop by 20% on Yarmouth-Bar Harbor ferry

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Nova Scotia

The CAT has seen astir a 20 per cent alteration successful ridership weeks into the 2025 season.

Drop from past twelvemonth is owed to Canadians not travelling arsenic often to U.S.

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 13, 2025 3:11 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 13

The CAT has seen about a 20 per cent alteration successful ridership weeks into the 2025 season.

The ferry that travels betwixt Yarmouth and Bar Harbor, Maine, had 19,308 passengers arsenic of June 12. That's down from 24,285 past year.

In a property merchandise Friday, Mark Wilson, president and main enforcement serviceman of Bay Ferries Limited, said the work is trending adjacent to past twelvemonth erstwhile it comes to Americans taking the ferry to Nova Scotia.

"Statistics Canada has reported a important alteration successful Canadian nonmigratory instrumentality trips to Canada by car and that inclination is holding existent for Canadian bookings connected The CAT," said Wilson.

Last year, the Nova Scotia authorities extended the seasonal ferry work into the 2026 season. It budgeted $21 cardinal for the work successful 2024.

The sailing play began connected May 15, operating 5 days per week until June 18. Daily work begins June 19 to Sept. 22.

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