Transportation

Richmond-based Helijet International announced May 1 that it has landed $3.5 million in new flight contracts, which will expand its presence along B.C.’s central coast.

SNC-Lavalin Inc.-associated companies involved in some of British Columbia's biggest transportation projects – from the Canada Line to Vancouver International Airport to the Sea-to-Sky Highway – are among those suspended from receiving World Bank financing for the next 10 years.

Vancouver International Airport was named Best Airport in North America for the fourth year in a row by the Skytrax World Airport Awards http://www.worldairportawards.com in Switzerland Wednesday.

Today is the last day that British Columbians will be able to provide input into the second phase of public consultation for the George Massey Tunnel Replacement Project.

The provincial and federal governments and the City of Abbotsford will jointly fund a $25 million upgrade to the Sumas border crossing, it was announced Friday.

A report by the Auditor General on the Evergreen Line released this morning and the report by the project's fairness monitor, which was completed six months ago but only published yesterday, both ignore the problems of the contractor hired to build the 11-kilometre SkyTrain extension.

The Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association (VEVA) will be sponsoring an electric vehicle (EV) showcase April 6 and 7 at the Village at Park Royal, just a week after the B.C. government issued a last-minute extension to its clean energy vehicle incentive program.

32% of Canadians say they expect to travel first to the U.S. before flying in 2013

At the Evergreen Line station announcement at the weekend, B.C. Transport Minister Mary Polak could not explain why a report about the awarding of the line's construction contract to embattled SNC-Lavalin remains secret six months after it was produced.

Report contends Canadian shipping players are too ‘complacent’