The Hawaii Superferry which officially shut down Tuesday by Maui Judge Joseph Cardoza saw another blow. This time the blow required the Superferry administration to let go 80 percent of it’s workforce.

Governor Lingle proposed a bill to the State Senate that got rejected. Although just a first revision, more will obviously come to try and help the state keeps it’s ferry in service while the environmental study is underway, the company still laid off 249 of 308 employees.

The layoff, which is temporary, is being used to try and alleviate the $650,000 that the company is losing weekly by allowing the Superferry to sit idle in the Honolulu Harbor.

There will no doubt be another run at the bill by the administration but this setback just puts the company running the Superferry closer to a decision to moving the Ferry to another location. Possibly permanently.

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