{"id":524824,"date":"2026-03-09T16:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524824\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:03:13","slug":"st-johns-dockyard-hoping-to-expand-current-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524824\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John\u2019s Dockyard Hoping to Expand Current Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/st-johns-dockyard.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"St. John's Dockyard Hoping to Expand Current Facility\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. John&#8217;s Dockyard (via The St. John&#8217;s Dockyard)<\/p>\n<p>St. John\u2019s Dockyard is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.nl.ca\/eccc\/projects\/project-2393\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looking at expansion and upgrades<\/a> to its marine vessel repair and maintenance facility in St. John\u2019s Harbour. <\/p>\n<p>The aim is to expand the facility to accommodate increasingly larger vessels, including those working in the offshore oil and gas industry.  <\/p>\n<p>The company says the changes are also needed in anticipation of billions of dollars in federal investment for Arctic vessels as part of Ottawa\u2019s National Shipbuilding Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The dockyard project would include the demolition of existing piers, to be replaced with a steel-pile reinforced concrete deck. <\/p>\n<p>The work will include dredging of the harbour and the construction of a new, and larger marine lift as well as additional berths. <\/p>\n<p>The existing marine lift and berthing are will remain in place and will complement the larger marine lift and berthing area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; St. John&#8217;s Dockyard (via The St. John&#8217;s Dockyard) St. John\u2019s Dockyard is looking at expansion and upgrades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-524824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}