A new City of Toronto staff report is recommending a plan to replace Toronto’s current, aging fleet of passenger ferries with fully electric vessels. The report rec ..
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Heddle Shipyards of Hamilton, Ontario, has been awarded a contract for undertaking vessel life extension works on one of the icebreakers in the Canadian Coast Guard fleet ..
The Canadian Coast Guard will expand its fleet of icebreakers through the recently completed purchase of a vessel formerly owned by New Brunswick-based marine services co ..
Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania has delivered two new fully-electric Ro-Pax ferries ordered by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, Canada. The 68-metre Amherst I ..
The Yellowknife Marine Rescue Unit, a sub-unit under the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary (CCGA) that operates in the Northwest Territories, recently added a new boat to it ..
Canadian railway CN (NYSE: CNI) so far has announced CA$95 million in 2021 capital investment projects in Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba and New Brunswick.
CA$95 million is worth about $77 million U.S., and 1 Canadian dollar equals about 81 U.S. cents.
The railway has an overall budget of CA$3 billion for capital improvements in 2021. The improvements aim to enhance safety and network fluidity via investments in technology, capacity and infrastructure maintenance.
About CA$445 million will go toward...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cn-lays-out-plan-for-capital-investments-in-4-provinces
Digital freight brokerage Uber Freight (NYSE:UBER) on Tuesday launched its self-service platform for shippers within Canada. The company began doing business in Canada in 2019 and has been manually facilitating domestic and cross-border shipments originating from Ontario and Quebec.
With the launch of Uber Freight’s Shipper Platform, Canadian shippers will be able to directly plug into the company’s marketplace for real-time pricing and available capacity.
In an interview with FreightWaves, Drew...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/uber-freight-launches-shipper-platform-in-canada
Canadian railway CN (NYSE: CNI) and short line operator Watco have agreed to allow Watco to take over the freight operations at one of CN’s passageways between the U.S.-Canadian border.
CN will sell to Watco its noncore lines and assets that are on the Soo division, which consists of approximately 250 miles of track and runs from Sault Ste. Marie to Oba, Ontario. The sale also consists of approximately 650 miles of branch lines of the Wisconsin Central in Wisconsin and Michigan. The Wisconsin...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/watco-to-take-over-cns-noncore-operations-in-ontario-upper-midwest
The battle for gig worker rights has come to Canada, where the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has launched the Gig Workers United campaign. It is the latest in the global movement to increase wages and improve working conditions for gig workers who rely on app-based companies for employment.
“We have to stand up for ourselves — the streets don’t look out for us, the apps don’t look out for us, so we’re looking out for each other and collectively calling out a bad business model,” Narada...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/gig-worker-rights-battle-moves-to-toronto
Ontario-based Doornekamp Construction has taken delivery of a multi-purpose tug and a pontoon barge built by Damen Shipyards Group. The tug, which has been renamed Amy ..