{"id":765434,"date":"2026-06-27T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765434\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:46:10","slug":"port-upgrades-to-open-window-for-larger-marine-atlantic-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765434\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Upgrades to Open Window for Larger Marine Atlantic Vessels"},"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\/06\/marine-atlantic-ferry-terminal-in-argentia.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Port Upgrades to Open Window for Larger Marine Atlantic Vessels\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marine Atlantic Ferry Terminal in Argentia (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Procuring a larger vessel for\u00a0the Marine Atlantic\u00a0fleet isn\u2019t something that is\u00a0in the Crown Corporation\u2019s\u00a0purview yet, but in a couple of years it could be.<\/p>\n<p>There are some major upgrades that will be taking place\u00a0at their facilities\u00a0over the next few years thanks to $270-million from Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Included in that will be the removal of the troublesome Vardy\u2019s Rock in the middle of the harbour in Port aux Basques, and a dock expansion in Argentia.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Murray Hupman says conditions in the harbour and their port facilities place limitations on the size of the vessels they can have.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, he says their max is a 203-meter vessel, but the planned upgrades \u201copen up that window a fair bit.\u201d While it may not be in the next couple of years, larger vessels \u00a0are \u201ccertainly\u201d in their long-term plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Marine Atlantic Ferry Terminal in Argentia (VOCM News) Procuring a larger vessel for\u00a0the Marine Atlantic\u00a0fleet isn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-765434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765434","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=765434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}