B.C. Ferries has issued a notice that it intends to split drydocking and repair services for its fleet between three B.C. shipyards.
The plan is for the majority of work to go to Victoria’s Point Hope Maritime Ltd., at 46 per cent, and Seaspan ULC, also at 46 per cent. Seaspan owns Vancouver Shipyards and has its own drydock in North Vancouver and owns Victoria Shipyards. Various companies rent the huge federal Esquimalt Graving Dock.
Vancouver’s Allied Shipbuilders Ltd. which has two floating drydocks, would receive eight per cent of the work.
B.C. Ferries estimates the total value of drydocking work will be at $14.5 million per year for the next five years.
Contracts, called master service agreements, would be for five years, with the option to extend for up to 10 years, said B.C. Ferries spokesman Jeff Groot.
The aim is for contracts to begin in the second quarter of this year.
Work would be “bundled” into contracts. B.C. Ferries normally awards individual contracts when vessels need to go into drydock but, about five years ago, it bundled seven vessels to Point Hope Maritime.
Both Point Hope and Seaspan will work on minor, intermediate and large vessels. Allied will work on minor and intermediate-sized vessels.
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