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BC Ferries will acquire three new ferries
In the next few days the contest procedure will be started in order to select the ship yard that will construct the ships
July 25, 2013
The Canadian company British Columbia Ferry Services (BC Ferries) has decided to acquire three new ferries in order to replace the ships Queen of Burnaby and Queen of Nanaimo that have an age respective of 48 and 49 years and that they will be withdrawn by the service in 2016. The two units will be replaced by two ferries that will enter to take part of the fleet of the company in 2016 and that they will be able to transport until 600 passengers and 145 motor vehicles, while a third new ship of the ability to 600 passengers and 125 cars, taken in delivery in 2017, will be used in the periods of greater traffic and in order to replace ships in maintenance.
In the next few days BC Ferries will start the contest procedure in order to select the which charged ship yard of the construction of the three new ferries with the objective to sign the order the next January.
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