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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.
HarbourLynx was the fourth venture to attempt such a ferry service. The first service in 1969, which used a passenger-only hovercraft, [1] failed financially. [2] The second service was similarly a hovercraft in the mid-1980s. [3]
A PacifiCat (centre) taking on passengers at Departure Bay on March 19, 2000. All three PacifiCats were decommissioned shortly thereafter. The fast ferry scandal was a political affair in the late 1990s relating to the construction of three fast ferries by the Canadian provincial crown corporation BC Ferries under direction of the Executive Council of British Columbia, headed at the time by ...
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.
Free ferry trips for seniors were suspended from April 2014 [8] to April 2018. [9] In the fall of 2014, BC Ferries announced the addition of three new Intermediate-class ferries to phase out Queen of Burnaby and Queen of Nanaimo. [10] [11] These three vessels were to be named the Salish class; Salish Orca, Salish Eagle and Salish Raven.
Formerly, the Queen of Vancouver ran if this ferry was not running. 1 Malaspina Sky: I: 2008: 112: 450: Entered service in February 2009. Vessel was formerly known as Island Sky, and was renamed to avoid confusion with the Island-class ferries as part of BC Ferries fleet standardization initiative, on October 24, 2019. [5] 7 Queen of Cumberland ...
Seaspan Ferries Corporation is a commercial roll on - roll off ferry service providing regularly scheduled transportation between British Columbia's Lower Mainland terminal in Delta and Vancouver Island's Nanaimo and Swartz Bay terminals. [3]
MV Queen of the North was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry built by AG Weser of Germany and operated by BC Ferries, which ran along an 18-hour route along the British Columbia Coast of Canada between Port Hardy and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, a route also known as the Inside Passage.