"Outsourcing Canadian jobs is always wrong, and it's even worse when we have these unjustified steel and aluminium tariffs," ...

CMI Weihai, a Chinese state-owned shipyard, was awarded the contract for four vessels after no Canadian companies submitted a bid.

The motion to study the issue was brought by Dan Albas, the Conservative MP for Okanagan Lake West-South Kelowna and passed ...

The Canada Infrastructure Bank contributed $1 billion to the deal and said in a June 26 statement that the new ferries ...

After several recent incidents on-board BC Ferries vessels, workers are urging for improved safety measures regarding violent ...

It comes as BC Ferries faces public pressure over its recent decision to award a multi-billion-dollar contract to build four new major vessels to a Chinese shipyard.

The BC Ferries vessel Spirit of Vancouver Island leaves Tsawwassen, B.C., bound for Swartz Bay, on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck DD ...

BC Ferries said in a press release that it had awarded China Merchants Industry Weihai Shipyards (CMI Weihai) a contract to build four new vessels after a “rigorous” global bidding process.

BC Ferries looked at European shipbuilders, which it has used in the past, but this contract would have cost $1.2-billion more than what it is paying the Chinese vendor.

BC Ferries is not behaving as a government procurement entity. It is buying four large ferries from the state-owned China Merchants Industry Weihai Shipyards, saying it was the clear business choice.