Two passenger-only ferries that Washington state no longer wants have been sold to the African nation Tanzania.
The Seattle Times says the ferries Kalama and Skagit had been sold to a boat broker in British Columbia, who then sold them to Tanzania. The sale price was $400,000, far below the $900,000 the state says they were worth in 2009, when the state stopped running passenger-only ferries.
Ferry officials originally hoped to sell the two, 112-foot boats locally. When that didn't work it offered them on the Internet for $300,000 each, with no takers.
The Times says the ferries will be used between the mainland of Tanzania and the Zanzibar archipelago.
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Information from: The Seattle Times, http://www.seattletimes.com
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