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Seaspan wins $3.3B ship contract
Feds order up to 10 more ships on top of 2011 contract BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
The order books at Seaspan’s North Vancouver shipyard got a lot longer Monday when the federal government announced up to 10 more non-combat Canadian Coast Guard vessels worth $3.3 billion will be built there. Federal ministers and Seaspan management made the announcement before a crowd of shipyard workers. Planning is now underway to build up to five 65-metre medium endurance multi-tasked vessels and up to five 75-metre offshore patrol vessels. These are in addition to the $8-billion government contract Seaspan won in 2011 to build a polar icebreaker, three offshore fisheries science vessels, an offshore oceanographic ship and two support ships. Speaking at the announcement, Public Works Minister Diane Finley underscored what contracts would mean for local employment. “This means additional years of work for Seaspan and its employees.That, ladies and gentlemen, represents a lot of good, stable jobs for Canadians, particularly here in B.C.,” she said. “Even better — rather than being a flash in the pan, it is at last bringing some long-term stability to this industry. . . .The boom
Brian Carter (left), president of Seaspan, Public Works Minister Diane Finley, West Vancouver MP John Weston, Labour Minister Kellie Leitch and Seaspan workers view the Squamish Nation carving given to Finley by Seaspan. Use the Layar app to see a video and more photos of the announcement. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD and bust cycles that have long plagued the Canadian shipbuilding industry are already becoming a thing of the past.” Seaspan has been preparing for the work with a $200-million investment in infrastructure at its North Vancouver property that includes six new buildings and a 300-tonne gantry crane. The modernization
project, made possible through the government contract, will allow Seaspan to compete for private sector shipbuilding contracts once the last coast guard ship has sailed, according to Brian Carter, Seaspan president. Rather than having to hire an even larger complement of new See 800 page 3
‘Slave’ treated like family: witnesses JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
FAMILY friends of a West Vancouver woman accused of keeping a young Tanzanian woman a virtual slave inside a British Properties mansion testified this week that they never
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saw the young woman unhappy and that she appeared to be treated as a member of the family. Two family friends testified Monday morning at the human trafficking trial of West Vancouver businesswoman Mumtaz Ladha, 60, who faces four charges under the
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Earlier in the trial, the 26 year-old woman who the Crown alleges was forced to be an unpaid domestic servant in Ladha’s Bramwell Road home testified that she See more page 3