Washington Marine Group
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The Washington Marine Group provides marine-related services to the Pacific Northwest. Within the Group are three shipyards, an intermodal ferry business, and a tug and barge transportation company that serves both domestic and international markets. Washington Marine Group is part of the Washington Corporations, owned by Dennis Washington.
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Marine Transportation
Seaspan International
Beginning in 1898 as a small company, servicing BC's coastal communities, Seaspan International Ltd. has evolved into a prominent marine transportation company serving the West Coast of North America. In addition to marine transportation, Seaspan provides ship docking services to the Port of Vancouver, Victoria Esquimalt and other BC out ports.
Seaspan Coastal Intermodal
Seaspan Coastal Intermodal Company is a commercial roll on - roll off ferry service providing regularly scheduled transportation between British Columbia's Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island's Nanaimo and Swartz Bay terminals. Based in Delta, B.C., Seaspan Coastal Intermodal transports truck trailers, containers, and railcars on self-propelled ferries and integrated tug-barge units.
Shipyards
Near to Pacific Northwest shipping lanes, Washington Marine Group Shipyards are a resource for the region's important marine industry. The Group's operations consist of three shipyards.
Vancouver Drydock
Located in Vancouver Harbour, Vancouver Drydock operates two floating drydocks with lifting capacities of 36,000 tonnes in a Panamax beam dock, and 30,000 tonnes in a self-contained deployable dock.
Vancouver Shipyards
Vancouver Shipyards designs, constructs, maintains, and repairs all types of vessels. The yard's facilities include a major steel forming shop, a large fabrication and assembly hall, a totally enclosed paint facility, and a SyncroLift capable of lifting vessels up to 1200 tonnes. In its early years most of the Ministry of Transportation ferries were built here.
Victoria Shipyards
Utilizing the Esquimalt Graving Dock, owned and operated by Public Works and Government Services of Canada, Victoria Shipyards can drydock and repair vessels up to 100,000 DWT. Victoria Shipyards offers a wide range of repairs up to and including complete vessel conversions.
Other Services
McKay Creek Technologies
McKay Creek Technologies licenses a patented process for the treatment of industrial wastewater. The process, known as "electrocoagulation", can remove a wide range of contaminants from industrial wastewater.
Marine Petrobulk
For over a quarter of a century, Marine Petrobulk has supplied all grades of bunker fuels to vessels entering the ports of Vancouver, New Westminster, Victoria, Prince Rupert, Kitimat and Nanaimo.
