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Crosses Lower Arrow Lake between Fauquier and Needles, on BC Highway 6. M.V. Needles: Cable: 40 135 5 minutes Waterbridge Ferries Incorporated [14] Upper Arrow Lake Ferry: Crosses Upper Arrow Lake between Shelter Bay and Galena Bay at the junction of BC highways 23 and 31. M.V. Columbia: Conventional 80 250 20 minutes Waterbridge Ferries ...
British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., operating as BC Ferries (BCF), is a former provincial Crown corporation, now operating as an independently managed, publicly owned Canadian company. BC Ferries provides all major passenger and vehicle ferry services for coastal and island communities in the Canadian province of British Columbia .
Hullo, officially the Vancouver Island Ferry Company, is a privately owned passenger ferry service in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It operates up to fourteen daily sailings between downtown Vancouver and downtown Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Each one-way trip takes around 75 minutes.
According to BC Ferries at this time, this was 40 percent lower than the lowest Canadian shipyard's bid. [11] This was a controversial decision, which led to Canadian shipbuilders protesting the decision. [12] The first new Coastal-class vessel, Coastal Renaissance, departed for British Columbia on October 27, 2007, and arrived on December 13 ...
The Kootenay Lake ferry is a ferry across Kootenay Lake in southeastern British Columbia, which operates between Balfour, on the west side of the lake, and Kootenay Bay, on the east side. The MV Osprey 2000 and the MV Balfour are the two vessels used. [1] The route is the world's longest free scenic ferry which carries vehicles. [2]
Swartz Bay is a 22.7 ha (56.1-acre) [2] ferry terminal and a major transportation facility at Swartz Bay in North Saanich, British Columbia. It is located 32 km (20 mi) north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. The terminal is part of the BC Ferries system, as well as part of Highway 17.
The B.C. Ferry Authority is established in April 2003 by the government of British Columbia. [1] It is an independent, no-share capital corporation that holds the single issued voting share [2] of the new BC Ferries, which is also established in April 2003. Both of these companies are meant to reform the delivery of ferry transportation ...
The PacifiCat class of fast ferries was operated from June 1999 to March 2000 by BC Ferries in British Columbia, Canada.Three PacifiCat catamarans - Explorer, Discovery, and Voyager - were built between 1996 and 2000 as part of a major public project to improve ferry service between the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island.