Post by ferryfast admin on May 12, 2012 12:23:22 GMT -5
B.C. businesses invited to shipbuilding summit
May 11, 2012
www.timescolonist.com/business/businesses+invited+shipbuilding+summit/6605155/story.html#ixzz1ug2LCOWl
Small and medium-size businesses from around British Columbia will have the opportunity later this month to connect with Canada's shipbuilders and learn how they can take advantage of economic opportunities stemming from the $35-billion national shipbuilding procurement strategy, within which Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd. has an $8-billion contract.
The Western Canadian Shipbuilding Summit is scheduled to take place in Vancouver on May 23, hosted by Western Economic Diversification Canada and Seaspan Marine Corporation.
Jerra Byrne, WEDC spokesperson, said the event is designed to give smaller enterprises from B.C. and around Western Canada a clear idea on how and where they can potentially contribute their particular skills and expertise to the various combat and non-combat shipbuilding projects that will roll out over the next 30 years.
Representatives from Vancouver and Victoria Shipyards and Halifax's Irving Shipyards, which was selected to construct the $25-billion combat work package under the strategy, will be on site to talk about the nature of the work and about specific projects.
Bryne said more than 400 company representatives have already registered for the event, many of them from B.C.
"We're expecting a really good turnout," she added.
The federal government announced the two winners of the shipbuilding contracts in October, 2011.
The contract awarded to North Vancouver-based Seaspan is expected to create 1,000 jobs over the next 18 months to two years.
The provincial government has also suggested the West Coast will see more than 3,000 new positions open up through economic spinoffs.
Canada-wide, the strategy could create up to 15,000 jobs and generate billions in direct and indirect economic spinoffs in the regions where the winning shipyards are located, according to the federal government.
The demand is heavily on the skilled trades: from shipwrights and shipfitters to electricians, plumbers, millwrights, welders and joiners.
To find out more about the summit, or to register as a participant, go to Western Economic Diversification Canada's website at www.wd-deo.gc.ca/
May 11, 2012
www.timescolonist.com/business/businesses+invited+shipbuilding+summit/6605155/story.html#ixzz1ug2LCOWl
Small and medium-size businesses from around British Columbia will have the opportunity later this month to connect with Canada's shipbuilders and learn how they can take advantage of economic opportunities stemming from the $35-billion national shipbuilding procurement strategy, within which Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd. has an $8-billion contract.
The Western Canadian Shipbuilding Summit is scheduled to take place in Vancouver on May 23, hosted by Western Economic Diversification Canada and Seaspan Marine Corporation.
Jerra Byrne, WEDC spokesperson, said the event is designed to give smaller enterprises from B.C. and around Western Canada a clear idea on how and where they can potentially contribute their particular skills and expertise to the various combat and non-combat shipbuilding projects that will roll out over the next 30 years.
Representatives from Vancouver and Victoria Shipyards and Halifax's Irving Shipyards, which was selected to construct the $25-billion combat work package under the strategy, will be on site to talk about the nature of the work and about specific projects.
Bryne said more than 400 company representatives have already registered for the event, many of them from B.C.
"We're expecting a really good turnout," she added.
The federal government announced the two winners of the shipbuilding contracts in October, 2011.
The contract awarded to North Vancouver-based Seaspan is expected to create 1,000 jobs over the next 18 months to two years.
The provincial government has also suggested the West Coast will see more than 3,000 new positions open up through economic spinoffs.
Canada-wide, the strategy could create up to 15,000 jobs and generate billions in direct and indirect economic spinoffs in the regions where the winning shipyards are located, according to the federal government.
The demand is heavily on the skilled trades: from shipwrights and shipfitters to electricians, plumbers, millwrights, welders and joiners.
To find out more about the summit, or to register as a participant, go to Western Economic Diversification Canada's website at www.wd-deo.gc.ca/