Seaspan Marine Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1970 |
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Vancouver , British Columbia Canada
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| management | Kyle Washington |
| Number of employees | 2,400 |
| Branch | Shipbuilding, transportation |
| Website | www.seaspan.com |
Seaspan Marine Corporation , a merger is more Canadian ship shipyards , headquartered in Vancouver , British Columbia . The company builds and overhauls military ships , ferries , tugs and barges and offers other services in the Pacific Northwest and internationally. The company is part of The Washington Companies group of companies .
Maritime transport
Seaspan Marine Corporation
Seaspan Marine Corporation has grown into a well-known transportation company serving the west coast of North America ( west coast of the United States and Canada) with a large fleet of tugs and barges . Seaspans barges primarily transport raw materials such as various types of wood, rocks, gravel, limestone, fuel, crude oil. Seaspan Marine Corporation also operates Terminals u. a. in Port Vancouver , Victoria and Esquimalt .
Seaspan Ferries Corporation
Seaspan Ferries Corporation is a commercial ferry company that offers regular connections between Delta and Vancouver Island , Nanaimo and Swartz Bay . Seaspan Ferries mainly transports trailers and containers as well as trains on three ferries and four non-powered floating platforms (barges).
Shipyards
The Seaspan Group operates three shipyards :
- The Vancouver Drydocks are located at the north end of Vancouver Harbor. They have two dry docks for 36,000 tons and a 30,000 ton dock.
- Vancouver Shipyards develops and builds all types of tugboats and offers maintenance and overhauls. The plant includes a large steel molding plant, construction and factory buildings and a paint shop.
- The third shipyard, Victoria Shipyards , uses the Esquimalt Graving Dock on Vancouver Island. At this facility, owned by the Canadian state, ships up to 100,000 DWT can be repaired and overhauled. Victoria Shipyards is the largest ship repair center on Canada's Pacific coast.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ - Seaspan Press Release October 2012 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 90 kB)
