PROGRESS ON CANADIAN FERRIES

摘要

The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is a step closer to taking delivery of two new medium-size ferry vessels. The 42 m vessels will each carry 16 cars and 80 passengers and are under construction at the Kiewit Offshore Services Cow Head Facility near Marystown, Canada. Last month, the first of the pair was moved out of the fabrication building at Cow Head Facility to be loaded onto a barge for transportation to the old Marystown Shipyard. Later in the week, it will be lowered into the water and towed back to Cow Head where the vessel's interior will be completed at dockside and will then undergo several days of sea trials before the Pro- vincial Government formally takes delivery- expected to be in late January 2011. The second ferry is expected to be completed in early March 2011.