BC Ferries will order three new intermediate-class vessels and intends to acquire ships that are fuelled by liquefied natural gas. The ferry service announced Tuesday that its application for the ...

Canadian ferry operator BC Ferries announced it is moving forward ... which would mean those ships would enter service by approximately 2037. Additionally, work will be planned to extend the ...

BC Ferries said the new ships are going to be able to carry 44 per cent more passengers than the six vessels they plan to replace. The new design will allow the vessels to emit less greenhouse gasses.

As a Crown corporation, BC Ferries has been subjected to years of political interference in everything from rate setting to vessel construction and spending priorities. This problem, which has ...

In 2016 and 2017 BC Ferries will have three new ships sailing in the B.C. waters after the BC Ferries Commissioner approved their application. The three new intermediate class vessels will replace ...

BC Ferries is also in the early stage of plans to replace its five larger C-class ships — such as Queen of Oak Bay — some of which can carry almost 1,500 passengers. The question of where ...

VICTORIA — When the travel editor for the Seattle Times took the ferry from Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay recently, she found herself making a quick cost-benefit analysis on the BC Ferries service ...

BC Ferries’ president and CEO Nicolas Jimenez says the new ships will increase capacity and improve the company's flexibility to move vessels across routes. The statement doesn't include how ...

Known as the “legacy vessels,” they are the oldest major ships in BC Ferries’ fleet. The new ferries are expected to serve BC Ferries’ major routes, with the first vessel estimated to enter service in ...

The MV Coastal Celebration looms at a dock in Esquimalt, B.C., one of two shipyards in the province big enough for repairs to a vessel the size of this BC Ferries flagship. Welders have cut large ...

The head of BC Ferries is warning of huge fare hikes on ... aging assets requires further investment beyond what our current model allows for," he said in a statement. There is a cap on fare ...

B.C. Ferries has revised its expansion plans and has submitted an option to the provincial regulator to remain at 11 major vessels instead of an initial plan to expand it to 12 large ships.