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driver of the trailer stays with the load and then drives off. The carrier has carved out a nichemarket in the corridor because both the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnelhave banned transport of hazardous materials. 16 Figure 13 shows the Detroit Windsor TruckFerry.Figure 13 – Detroit Windsor Truck FerrySource: http://www.truckferry.com/New England Fast FerryNew England Fast Ferry operates passenger service, with some limited cargo capacity,between New Bedford and Nantucket/Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The company isconsidering starting up a New Jersey-New Bedford RoRo cargo service with medium-speedvessels with catamaran-hull design. The new service is planning truck-competitive operationswith overnight bypass of congested New York area through scheduled departures from NewJersey at 8 pm, arriving in New Bedford 5:00 pm the next morning. Two catamaran vesselsare under consideration: a 260-foot RoRo with a 24 trailer capacity at a cost of $25 million,or a 320-ft RoRo with a 42-trailer capacity at a cost of $30 million. 17 The company isenvisioning a port-to-port, next morning container service at a rate of $350 per trailer. Keyto holding operating costs would be using the crew to load and discharge the trailers, ratherthan relying on more costly port labor. The service is still at the planning stage, looking for“cornerstone” contract with a major trucking company to provide base cargo volume. 18OSG Self-propelled Tanker Fleets Distributing Domestic Liquid Bulk Cargo andProviding Lightering ServiceOverseas Shipbuilding Group (OSG) is an example of a carrier delivering bulk liquidproducts for domestic commerce. OSG owns and operates 35 Jones Act tank vessels,consisting of “Handysize” (40,000 to 50,000 deadweight tons) tank ships and ArticulatedTug-Barge (ATBs) in all four U.S. coastwise markets: Gulf, west coast, east coast, and the16 NYU Rudin Center and Rutgers University, Bi-State Domestic Freight Ferries Study, prepared by Allison deCerreno, Martin Robins, Pippa Woods, Anne Strauss-Wieder, Ryan Yeung, September 2006.17 Note that these vessel cost estimates include lower-cost used and rehabilitated vessels.18 Reeves and Associates, “Analysis of the Potential Markets for Short Sea Shipping Services ove the Ports ofFall River and New Bedford,” prepared for the Massachusetts Department of Business and Technology andSeaport Advisory Council, March 29, 2006.ONR SSS Final Report 24