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2012 – Seaspan's Vancouver Shipyards commences the $170 million Shipyard Modernization Project in preparation for federal shipbuilding contracts under the NSS program. [18] 2014 – Canada's largest permanent gantry crane arrives at Seaspan's Vancouver Shipyards. The crane weighs in at 300 tonnes, stands 80 metres (260 ft) high and spans 76 ...
The Polar Icebreaker Project (previously Polar Class Icebreaker Project) is an ongoing Canadian shipbuilding program under the National Shipbuilding Strategy. [6] Announced in 2008 with an intention to replace the ageing CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent with a new polar icebreaker by 2017, the program has faced multiple delays and changes, and as of 2024 consists of two planned icebreakers, CCGS ...
Komsomolsk-on-Amur: Amur Shipbuilding Plant (1932–) Nizhny Novgorod: Krasnoye Sormovo (1849–) Polyarny: Russian Shipyard Number 10 (1935–) Rybinsk: Vympel Shipyard (1930–) Saint Petersburg. Admiralty Shipyard (1704-) Almaz (1901–) Baltic Shipyard (1864–) Kronstadt Marine Plant (1858–) Petrozavod (1721-2001) Severnaya Verf ...
Dennis R. Washington (born 1934) is an American billionaire industrialist who owns, or co-owns controlling interests in, a large consortium of privately held companies collectively known as the Washington Companies and, in Canada, another collection of companies known as the Seaspan Marine Corporation.
[33] [34] On 11 October 2010, the Government of Canada invited five shipbuilding companies "to participate in a request for proposals" for the NSPS. On 19 October 2011, the Government of Canada announced the award of the $8 billion non-combat ship package, including the Joint Support Ship Project, to Seaspan Marine Corporation in Vancouver ...
Public Services and Procurement Canada Canada Victoria Shipyards [56] Esquimalt Graving Dock [57] 357 41 12 * Washington Marine Group Canada Vancouver: Vancouver Dry Dock [58] 220 45.8 8.8 * Washington Marine Group Canada Vancouver: Vancouver Shipyards [59] 131 33.5 * Hawaii Shipyards (BAE Systems) United States of America: Pearl Harbor Graving ...
[9] [10] The construction was awarded to Seaspan Vancouver Shipyards on 19 October 2019, followed by a design contract for a team led by STX Canada Marine in 3 February 2012. [ 11 ] In May 2013, the Vancouver Sun reported that the polar icebreaker and the Royal Canadian Navy's new joint support ships faced a scheduling conflict and that the ...
In 1998, Canada purchased the submarines to replace the aging Oberon-class submarines. Refit for Canadian service included the removal of sub-Harpoon missile firing and mine-laying capabilities, installation of torpedo launch systems and upgrades to weapons and fire control systems. Each vessel holds 53 crew. [6]