Mystery of the shrinking ferry

When a 1978-built ferry operated for Canada’s BC Ferries between 1991 and 2015 as the Queen of Chilliwack she had a length of 114 meters and a gross tonnage of 5,011 gt and measured 114.8 meters long by 18.3 meters beam.

In 2015, she was sold to Goundar Shipping of Fiji and renamed Lomaiviti Princess III. Now, while the Equasis data base still shows her gross tonnage as 5,011 gt, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) says that its inspectors have received information indicating...

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