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VIDEO: HaiSea Marine’s floating tugboat base marks a milestone



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Nick Blenkey

Zewén floating tugboat base is now able to be transported up the Douglas Channel to Kitimat, B.C.

The fleet of extremely inexperienced tugboats constructed for Canada’s HaiSea Marine will function from a purpose-designed and constructed floating tugboat operations base. Once we final reported on the venture in August final 12 months, its concrete basis had simply been poured. Now, as proven within the time-lapse video, the brand new floating facility has been named and blessed by the Haisla Nation, which is almost all accomplice in HaiSea Marine (with Seaspan ULC as minority accomplice) and is now able to be transported up the Douglas Channel to Kitimat,B,C., the place will probably be based mostly to assist HaiSea’s operations in assist of LNG Canada’s Kitimat LNG terminal.

“Zewén” is the Haisla phrase for the coho salmon and is now additionally the identify of HaiSea’s operations and upkeep facility. The placement the place the Zewén floating tugboat base might be secured in Kitimat impressed the identify from Haisla Nation Hereditary Chief, Basil Grant. His household has been fishing for coho in that precise spot for generations. Now the positioning will carry a brand new legacy as the house base for HaiSea’s fleet.

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Zewén is a floating operations and upkeep constructing and was purpose-built and designed to resist the acute tidal vary within the Kitimat area. It was additionally designed to be welcoming and inclusive of all genders with a give attention to consolation, privateness, and total well- being. It options a big workshop, widespread areas, a health club, and also will accommodate as much as eight shore-based personnel to make use of throughout working hours.

The floating tugboat base was constructed by Pacific Marine Building on Wei Wai Kum territory in Campbell River, B.C. To have fun its naming and unveiling, HaiSea was joined by representatives from Haisla Nation, Wei Wai Kum Nation, and LNG Canada contained in the Zewén’s warehouse.

“When HaiSea was nonetheless within the concept and planning part, we challenged Seaspan to create one thing completely different; an environmentally pleasant tugboat fleet to ply our waters; job alternatives for Haisla Nation members and our native First Nations neighbors; and lastly, we needed variety and inclusion to be a part of HaiSea’s tradition,” mentioned Chief Crystal Smith, Elected Chief Councillor, Haisla Nation. “ As we have fun the naming of the Zewén facility, it’s clear that our shared imaginative and prescient of variety, inclusion, and environmental innovation is coming to fruition.”

“As a contemporary marine start-up, we have been capable of develop HaiSea from the ground-up in true partnership with the Haisla Nation, and with suggestions from our mariners,” mentioned Jordan Pechie, senior vice chairman, Seaspan Marine Transportation. “We had the exceptional alternative to construct our tradition and our belongings, just like the Zewén, to assist an inclusive and various crew. Zewén options single enclosed bogs and altering rooms, which in 2024 is the baseline expectation nevertheless it’s revolutionary for a centuries-old trade that was not constructed for everybody. The revealing and naming of Zewén is a celebration of how we’re doing issues otherwise and is a testomony to our efforts in designing welcoming and inclusive workspaces at sea and on shore.”

“It has been an honor to be a part of this venture and full the development of the Zewén facility for Haisea Marine,” mentioned Pacific Marine Building president Cory Handyside. “There was numerous studying, innovation, and crew

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