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SPECIAL EPISODE: Steve Nevey
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- Maritime Morning Brief
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- Sep 10, 2026
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- 4017
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Summary
In this special episode we sit down with Steve Nevey, Executive Director of Washington State Ferries. After Steve joined a Chevron cadet program at 16 he went to sea on tankers and then cruise ships, and worked his way up at Holland America on a path that was supposed to end in a captain's chair and instead ended in an office in Seattle. He walks us through how he arrived at Washington State Ferries a year and a half into the pandemic, what he found when he got there, and the work of rebuilding the licensed deck workforce. We also get into the aging fleet, the three new hybrid-electric ferries now under construction for 2030, what riders misunderstand about how the system, and some of his most exciting days on the job.