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Launch of Seaport ferry service delayed to 2019

The employer-funded ferry service connecting North Station with the Seaport District is now expected to launch early next year, not this fall as previously anticipated.

The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority proposed the ferry service last year in an effort to avoid traffic that builds up between North Station and the Seaport during rush hour. The MCCA would oversee the service, but it would be funded by major businesses in the Seaport, whose employees would be able to take the ferry rather than the corporate-sponsored bus shuttles now used.

Earlier this year, MCCA officials had targeted August or September to begin operating the ferry, but the new goal for the launch is “early 2019,” MCCA spokesman Nate Little said.