MOUNT DESERT ISLANDER • September 30, 2021
After years of absence, the CAT ferry is expected to come back to Bar Harbor in the spring of 2022. “At this stage, we are full speed ahead for next year and really look forward to the return of ferry service to Bar Harbor,” the company said in a statement to the Islander. For 12 years, the ferry ran between Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Bar Harbor until the route was ended in 2009. The ferry then moved to Portland, but the plug on that route was pulled in 2018. The high-speed ferry was slated to come back to Maine this year but operations were suspended in February due to the COVID-19 pandemic.