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BC Ferries is investing locally to recycle the wo retired 'Bowen Queen' and 'Powell River Queen' to support BC jobs and build marine recycling capacity in British Columbia. The work will be carried out by Marine Recycling Corporation (MRC) at Esquimalt Graving Dock, a federally managed facility, and then completed at a recycling facility in Surrey. Up to 25 employees from Point Hope Maritime in Victoria will work on the project at their second location at the Esquimalt Graving dock. Additional vessels, including the retired 'Mayne Queen' and the 'Quadra Queen II', which is nearing the end of its service life, are expected to require dismantling in the coming years.

The 'El Venizelos' is expected to permanently join the Algérie Ferries fleet under a lease-purchase agreement. A lease agreement with a purchase option has been signed between the two parties, providing for a transfer of ownership after a five-year period. The 'El Venizelos' is one of the oldest vessels in the fleet of the Greek maritime group Attica. Since June 2025, the ferry has been operating between Algeria, France, and Spain under the Algérie Ferries banner. Its acquisition would bring the Algerian company's fleet to five, which currently includes the 'Badji Mokhtar III', the 'Tassili II', the 'Djazaïr II' and the 'Tariq Ibn Ziad'. The latter, which has been under repair for two years, is expected to return to service in Aug 2025.

BC Ferries is investing locally to recycle the wo retired 'Bowen Queen' and 'Powell River Queen' to support BC jobs and build marine recycling capacity in British Columbia. The work will be carried out by Marine Recycling Corporation (MRC) at Esquimalt Graving Dock, a federally managed facility, and then completed at a recycling facility in Surrey. Up to 25 employees from Point Hope Maritime in Victoria will work on the project at their second location at the Esquimalt Graving dock. Additional vessels, including the retired 'Mayne Queen' and the 'Quadra Queen II', which is nearing the end of its service life, are expected to require dismantling in the coming years.

sold to Breakers

The National Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) has taken control of the 'Anka', which entered the port of the temporarily occupied Crimea in violation of Ukrainian law. The ship was handed over to the ARMA for further sale by a decision of the investigating judge on the basis of a petition filed by the SBU Main Directorate in the AR of Crimea within the framework of criminal proceedings on illegal entry into the temporarily occupied territory. The vessel belonged to Russia's shadow fleet. At the end of 2024, it transported 5,000 tons of wheat from the port of Sevastopol, which was stolen in the temporarily occupied territory of southern Ukraine. The 'Anka' is owned by the Fab Petrol Doo, a company registered in Montenegro. The vessel is worth $420,000. Specialists from ARMA's Southern MTU conducted a technical inspection of the vessel, which confirmed that the asset was in good technical condition and ready for further use. Currently, the Interregional Department is collecting all the necessary information about the asset to form a high-quality tender offer.