Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) on Friday held a launch and christening ceremony for the ferry Long Island at its Allanton Shipyard in Panama City, Fla.Scheduled to be delivered later this year, the ...

At 5 a.m., Francesca Ripani can be found starting up generators and the main engines on the Bridgeport-Port Jefferson ferry’s Park City vessel. Then she makes her rounds on the boat, making sure the ...

Florida shipbuilder Eastern Shipbuilding Group has cut first steel for a new auto and passenger ferry for the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company. The new vessel, designed by Braintree, Mass ...

PANAMA CITY — A local company continues to make waves in the shipbuilding industry. In a press release on Friday, officials with Eastern Shipbuilding announced the company delivered a newly ...

BRIDGEPORT — Fourteen years ago this past July, zoning officials rejected the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company's plan to relocate its ferry terminal from downtown to vacant industrial ...

The Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Steamboat Company's Park City ferry. Credit: Bridgeport Ferry Co. Looking for a career in transportation with good pay, incredible job security, free room and board ...

Jeong-A Seong was fed up with her three-day-a-week commute from Huntington, Long Island, N.Y., to Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn, where she teaches graphic design and animation. The drive, ...

The Bridgeport and Port Jefferson ferry’s newest vessel, The Long Island, docked in the Suffolk village on Sunday afternoon after a five-day journey through treacherous storms in North Carolina.

BRIDGEPORT — If someone compiled a list of dream projects for this city, a casino and high speed ferry service to New York City would be in competition for the top slot. Both economic development ...

I took a round-trip ferry ride between Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Port Jefferson, New York. The boat had plenty of seating, a small café stocked with treats, and a comfy lounge area. I enjoyed ...

The boat had plenty of seating, a small café stocked with treats, and a comfy lounge area. I enjoyed spending the day in Port Jefferson and thought it was the perfect day-trip destination. I grew up ...