Recent News
The Canadian Coast Guard: Enhancing Offshore Patrol Capability in a More Contested Commons
This policy perspective examines the role of the Canadian Coast Guard in enforcement of contested waters against illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing by foreign vessels.
Heddle Shipyards Awarded $135 Million Contract for Life Extension of CCGS Terry Fox
Heddle Shipyards has been awarded a $135.5 million dollar contract for the Vessel Life Extension (VLE) of the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker (CCGS) Terry Fox. The nearly three-year project will involve an extensive engineering, planning and procurement phase, with shipyard work scheduled to begin in December 2023.
New Barges Bring Exciting Capability to the RCN
A new phase of training for four modular, self-propelled barges, called sea-to-shore connectors, was recently completed. These Canadian-built barges will support the future Joint Support Ships.
‘Political Hot Potato’: Resident of Hay River N.W.T. Urge Dredging in Key Waterway
Dredging of commercial vessel channels by Hay River, N.W.T. is urgently needed to clear the sediment, but no level of government currently carries this responsibility.
Study Highlights Major Impact of Canada’s Maritime Private Sector
The National Maritime Group, a coalition of private sector maritime employers and operators from coast to coast and through the St. Lawrence, today released their national Economic Impact Study, confirming that where ships meet shore, Canada’s private sector maritime employers and operators play a crucial role in the national supply chain.
Davie Redelivers RCN Frigate Following Major Upgrade
Davie Shipbuilding reports that HMCS St. John’s, a City-class frigate, was delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), November 1, after extensive maintenance and modernization work.
Marine Atlantic Bounces Back from COVID, Plans Hybrid Ferry to Go Green
After a two-year slump in passenger traffic because of COVID-19, Marine Atlantic business rebounded this past summer and sees Chinese-built ships as part of their future solutions.
Featured Opportunities through the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
Several marine-focussed opportunities to obtain funding through the IDEaS program are available and application deadlines are approaching.
Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards has been Awarded a Long-Term Contract with the Canadian Coast Guard to Support the Engineering Work
Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards have been awarded a Canadian Coast Guard long-term contract to provide engineering support services such as integrated naval architecture and marine/mechanical and electrical engineering services.
New Small Modular Reactor Marine Facility Design Could be Built in Shipyards
Oregon based NuScale Power LLC (NuScale) and Canadian Prodigy Clean Energy Ltd. (Prodigy) have announced a new conceptual design for a transportable and marine-based small modular reactor (SMR) power generating facility which they would like shipyards to build.
The Life Cycle Cost of the Canadian Surface Combatants – A Fiscal Analysis
In response to a request by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimate, the Parliamentary Budget Officer has prepared an independent assessment of the life cycle cost of the Canadian Surface Combatant program, with a total cost estimated at $306.0 billion.
His Majesty’s Canadian Ship Margaret Brooke Commissioned into Service
The Royal Canadian Navy has commissioned into service a second Arctic and Offshore Patrol Vessel, HMCS Margaret Brook.
Kraken Received $0.6 Million Synthetic Aperture Sonar Order for Activities in Canada’s North
Kraken Robotics has received a purchase order from Qikiqtaaluk Corporation for its synthetic aperture sonar which will be integrated to an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle that the Qikiqtaaluk Corporation will use to conduct ghost gear detection operations in the Arctic.
Ultra and UMS SKELDER Awarded IDEaS Contract
Ultra Maritime and UMS SKELDAR have been awarded a 2nd Phase contract under the Department of National Defence’s Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program, which will explore the development of a Rotary Wing UAS to provide an Anti-Submarine Warfare sonobuoy dispensing capability, based on the SKELDAR V-200 Uncrewed Aircraft System.
Nova Scotia Team Restoring the ‘Canada Mayflower’ Will Use Trees Downed by Fiona
Work to restore the replica of a ship that brought about 190 settlers from Scotland to Pictou, N.S., in 1773 will be using downed trees that needed removal and could be used for the shipbuilding project.
With COP27 on the Horizon, Shipping Industry Feeling Increased Pressure to Reduce Emissions
MAN Energy Solutions four-storey high test engine using different carbon-neutral and carbon-free fuels may hold the potential to transform the shipping industry and the global supply chains that rely on it.
Canadian Coast Guard adopts hybrid-electric vessel, explores low-carbon fuel options
Canada’s seafaring fleet is exploring multiple ways to reduce its carbon emissions with the Canadian Coast Guard opening bids to construct a hybrid-electric fishery research vessel and testing biodiesel blends to lower emissions in its combustion vessels.
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