STX Canada Marine announced that they have been awarded a contract to design the future flagship polar icebreaker of the Canadian Coast Guard. The $9.5 million contract was awarded by [...]
Algoma Central Corp., the largest Canadian shipowner and operator of Canadian-flagged Great Lakes vessels, has announced plans to install fresh water exhaust gas scrubbers on six new vessels that the [...]
By Brian Van Pay and Barbara Moore, US Department of State In the enduring spirit of friendship and cooperation, the United States and Canada conducted their fourth joint mission to map [...]
Royal Dutch Shell has won a $970 million bid (NS 11-1) for exploration rights offshore Nova Scota, says the Canada – Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB). This 9-year license covers [...]
The National Energy Board (NEB or the Board) released filing requirements today for future applications to drill in the Canadian Arctic Offshore. The Filing Requirements, a companion document to The [...]
OTTAWA (Dow Jones)–The Canadian government Wednesday awarded C$33 billion (US$32.3 billion) of shipbuilding contracts, the largest in the country’s history, to Nova Scotia’s Irving Shipbuilding and British Columbia-based Seaspan Marine [...]
Contracts will soon be awarded to Canadian shipyards for an aggressive $35-billion shipbuilding project, the largest military procurement in modern Canadian history. The National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS) is a [...]
OTTAWA (Dow Jones)–Prime Minister Stephen Harper flies this week to Canada’s High Arctic, where troops are conducting the country’s largest modern-day Arctic exercise, amid heightened global jostling over the region’s [...]
Canada’s senate passed a motion today that brings it one step closer to changing the name of it’s “navy” from Maritime Command to Royal Canadian Navy, or possibly Canadian Navy [...]
According to the Toronto Sun, a junior naval officer in Canada’s “Maritime Command” is in a bit of trouble after he was caught emailing his senator and urging his coworkers [...]
The ASTER instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft captured this image of a massive iceberg from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier on Aug. 12, 2010. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team [...]
Permanent joint maritime policing legislation proposed By Robert Matas Vancouver, BC — From Friday’s Globe and Mail Canadian and U.S. authorities are talking about extending cross-border security measures that were [...]
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