$8 Billion Shipbuilding Contract Sails to BC

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Uploaded by on Oct 19, 2011

http://www.ctvvancouverisland.ca
VICTORIA -- A British Columbia shipyard has won an $8 billion Federal shipbuilding contract.

Seaspan Marine Corporation of North Vancouver has been given the non-combat portion of the shipbuilding.

It's a distant second-place to the $25-billion in Navy ship construction that went to Irving Shipyards in Halifax.

The $8 billion will mean a lot of work for people in shipyards on Vancouver Island and on the mainland.

The construction of the ships will be done primarily in North Vancouver, where 80% of the workforce will be.

The other 20% of the work including trials and finishing will happen in Esquimalt, says Seaspan.


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