To save jobs the Halifax Shipyard should build a port in Dartmouth. Weekly News #21

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To save jobs the Halifax Shipyard should build a port in Dartmouth. Weekly News #21

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News

1.Local MP Hates the port..
the Feds reject port funding request for expansion.

2.Local MP Hates the port
To save jobs the Halifax Shipyard should build a port in Dartmouth. Weekly News #21
Here is what i had to say in the herald

3.Local MP Hates the Port.
CBC Follows up. apparently it was a 500million ask that was rejected, however the port is still borrowing money to expand pier 41/42

4.This week in the Herald.
To save jobs the Halifax Shipyard should build a port in Dartmouth. Weekly News #21
This week I talk about the shipyard, the competition for repair work, and how they may have shot themselves in the foot.

5. Ships Stay Here, and 1 more ship to start here?
from the Ottawa Citizen – Irving is hoping to keep all the Halifax Class repair work, and wants to build a 7th AOPS? the feds have contracted for 5, with incentives to lead to a 6th. Also Council has given its support to the Shipyard workers.

6.ABCO to build Landing Craft for AOPS
To save jobs the Halifax Shipyard should build a port in Dartmouth. Weekly News #21
NS Built small boats will be carried on the new AOPS. the Baots will be built in Lunenburg.

7.Ship Selection Soon.
To save jobs the Halifax Shipyard should build a port in Dartmouth. Weekly News #21
word is the feds will be choosing the design for the CSC by the end of the month. then negotiations will start. The 3 options were outlined into this post.

Interesting

1. Bad Seamanship

2.Bad Seamanship

History

Oct 16, 1970 – CSS Hudson returned to Halifax, completing the first circumnavigation of the Americas

Oct 14, 1942 – SS Caribou torpedoed by U69 in the Cabot Strait. The Newfoundland ferry was traveling from Sydney to Port Aux Basques.  101 survivors, 137 passengers and crew are killed.

Oct 12, 1492 – Christopher Columbus sights his first landfall in the Americas at 2:00 am.

Oct 11, 1963 – HMCS Haida is paid off

Oct 11, 1942 – RCMP St. Roch entered halifax harbour, becoming the first vessel to transit the north west passage west to east.

Original article: To save jobs the Halifax Shipyard should build a port in Dartmouth. Weekly News #21.

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