Transportation

The Canadian Coast Guard has announced it is looking to fill 150 positions in B.C. to staff new lifeboat stations, ships and infrastructure projects. The federal agency is looking to add 500 positions across Canada.

Airline's Airbus A350 is the first of that model to ever land at YVR

Although vessel lineups at the Port of Vancouver have declined in the past week or so, they are still above historic levels, according to Canada’s Grain Monitoring Program (GMP).

The Greater Victoria Harbour Authority’s (GVHA) goal of having a small or mid-sized cruise ship call Victoria home by 2020 has moved closer to reality.

Budget 2017 mentions Broadway Line extension but not Surrey light rail

Surrey business community pegs long-standing LRT project as city’s top priority

Vital supply lines to Vancouver Island would be cut off in the case of a major earthquake, which would destroy almost all berths on BC Ferries’ major routes, an engineer and former metal fabricator warn.

Exports keep growing despite shaky economy

BC Ferries is planning for new vessels that would operate in protected waters. “We are in the planning stages to build shuttle-class vessels,” B.C. Ferries spokeswoman Deborah Marshall said. “These ships would carry approximately 100 vehicles.

Daily service will be seasonal, between June and September