Western Canada Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC) has taken delivery of the first vessel in a series of four aluminium landing craft optimised for oil spill response dut ..
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VESSEL REVIEW | North Arm Tempest – Powerful barge-handling tug designed for BC’s remote areas
North Arm Transportation, a towing and ship handling company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, has taken delivery of a new tug from local shipyard ABD Boats. ..
Canada’s ELD mandate now in effect — kind of
Canada’s mandate for commercial vehicles to use electronic logging devices (ELDs) took effect on Saturday. But it’s missing two key pieces: meaningful enforcement and a list of approved ELDs certified for use in the country.
The result is a peculiar set of circumstances. Any commercial trucks regulated by the federal government, including those from the U.S., technically aren’t abiding by the mandate, but they can’t. But it’s a moot point since penalties for noncompliance won’t begin until June...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/canadas-eld-mandate-now-in-effect-kind-of
FreightWaves Haul of Fame: Stevens Transport has done well for 40 years
Stevens Transport was founded by Steven L. Aaron in Dallas, Texas in 1980 in the wake of the deregulation of the trucking industry. Steven had just sold his first business endeavor, Stevens Food, a meatpacking business based in Paris, Texas.
Though he did not have much knowledge about the transportation industry, Steven did know the meat industry and began to search for customers there. In a time when other trucking companies were going under, Stevens Transport flourished. In the company’s...
Wood wins contract extension off Canada
UK engineering firm Wood has secured a contract extension for the provision of engineering, procurement, and construction solutions and maintenance for the Hibernia platform off the coast of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. A five-year extension agreement will continue to employ up to 300...
https://splash247.com/wood-wins-contract-extension-off-canada/
Bitter sale of trucking companies pits brother against brother
A fight between two brothers over their jointly owned trucking business is nearing a bitter end after three years of litigation and arbitration. So bitter that one brother is funding an investigation.
Paul and Rana Randhawa have been embroiled in a legal dispute since 2018 over the Ontario, Canada-based Randhawa Group of Companies. The crown jewel of the 12-company operation appears to be a cross-border trucking business, ASR Transportation, based in the Toronto suburb of Oakville with a fleet...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bitter-sale-of-trucking-company-pits-brother-against-brother
TGS and PGS team up for East Canada survey
Offshore survey players TGS and PGS have joined forces to carry out a 3D seismic survey of the Cape Anguille, expanding their Canada portfolio with an additional 10,000 sq km offshore Newfoundland. The survey covers existing lease blocks and open acreage in the Orphan Basin. The data acquired and...
https://splash247.com/tgs-and-pgs-team-up-for-east-canada-survey/
$6M in marijuana seized from trucks at US-Canada border
Over $6 million worth of marijuana was seized from two commercial trucks that were attempting to cross the U.S. border from Canada with shipping manifests claiming an especially mundane cargo: paper.
The seizures happened within a day of each other near Buffalo, New York, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement on Friday. The drivers in both cases are under investigation, CBP spokesperson Mike Niezgoda told FreightWaves in an email, declining to provide further details.
The most...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/6m-in-marijuana-seized-from-trucks-at-us-canada-border
Seaspan Shipyards construirá el nuevo rompehielos para la guardia costera canadiense
Próximamente se dará de baja, tras 60 años de servicio, el rompehielos más grande de Canadá, el CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent.
Algoma unveils new dry bulk carrier design
Algoma Central Corporation has exercised an option at China’s Yangzijiang Shipyard to build a dry bulk vessel with a new design. No price has been revealed for the vessel. Algoma’s new Equinox 2.0 Class builds on the original Equinox Class standards to achieve better fuel efficiency, improved speed...
https://splash247.com/algoma-unveils-new-dry-bulk-carrier-design/