{"id":873330,"date":"2026-08-27T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873330\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:46:09","slug":"marine-atlantic-takes-ownership-of-new-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873330\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Atlantic Takes Ownership of New Vessel"},"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\/08\/marine-atlantic-logo-stock.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Marine Atlantic Takes Ownership of New Vessel\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Marine Atlantic has taken ownership of its newest vessel. <\/p>\n<p>Last January, the Crown corporation announced that it had entered into a five-year lease with Stena to acquire the vessel, which has been named the \u00cele Rouge.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Tibbo, the VP of service and innovation at Marine Atlantic, says the ship is currently in Gibraltar. <\/p>\n<p>He says they have a crew over in the region that will help sail the vessel over to North Sydney. The trip to Canada will take about a week.<\/p>\n<p>Tibbo says the plan all along has been for the \u00cele Rouge to go into service in mid-October, when the Blue Puttees goes on dry dock. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Marine Atlantic has taken ownership of its newest vessel. Last January, the Crown corporation announced that it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710478,"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-873330","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\/873330","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=873330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}