Honolulu Advertiser - June 18, 2008Hawai`i Superferry has spent $210,000 since last summer to lobby for federal money to install features on its second high-speed catamaran to make it more attractive for military use....Superferry paid Blank Rome LLC, a prominent law and lobbying firm, to try to obtain federal money through the National Defense Features program to cover the cost of improvements to its second catamaran under construction at the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Ala.The defense program covers the installation of militarily useful features on commercial ships if the owners agree to make the ships available to the military during emergencies.Read The Entire StoryHere
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