The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that operates the airport, will select a ferry operator later this year, a spokesman said.
Commuter service to New York City by the same ferry operator is under discussion.
That private ferry operator now reports more than 60,000 passenger trips a day.
In Scotland, the ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne has added extra sailings to Arran and Skye because of heavy demand.
"What it did was send everybody back into shock," James Smith of St. Thomas, a ferry operator, said of Maria.
The two new routes continue the expansion of New York Waterway, the largest privately owned ferry operator in the country.
Ferry operator Shun Tak Holdings said a preliminary inspection found damage to the boat's rear wing and the engine room.
Did a politically connected ferry operator, New York Waterway, covet the harbor as a hub for its expanding empire?
In all 23 people suffered smoke-related injuries, a spokeswoman for the ferry operator DFDS Seaways said.
So, while his fund owns a Russian electronics retailer -- M.Video -- it has also invested in Tallink, a ferry operator in Estonia.
The ferry operator P&O hit out at the decision by Eurotunnel, which it said had taken place with little or no consultation with MyFerryLink staff.
