Seaspan Shipyards adapts, pivots and navigates through 2020 to build and successfully deliver CCGS John Cabot By Cindy Chan
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easpan Shipyards completed its third vessel of its first-class ships under Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy.
According to Amy MacLeod, vicepresident of corporate affairs for Seaspan Shipyards, the company has been on the west coast of Canada – where the operations base is – for generations. The company has three shipyards. Two are in North Vancouver, B.C., where one is focused on the National Shipbuilding Strategy for Canada, which is the recapitalization of the Canadian fleet; the other yard performs commercial work. The third shipyard is in Victoria, where the Seaspan team works on vessels for the Canadian government and other navies, as well as on maintenance, refit and repair. MacLeod says Seaspan Shipyards currently boasts more than 2,700 employees across all three yards. “In 2011, Canada announced and selected shipyards for its National Shipbuilding Strategy,” MacLeod explains. “The No. 1 focus is recapitalizing and rebuilding the Canadian fleet, including vessels
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