{"id":945948,"date":"2026-10-25T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945948\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:30:10","slug":"dry-dock-wars-port-of-argentia-signs-mou-with-private-sector-for-floating-dry-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945948\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Dock Wars; Port of Argentia Signs MOU with Private Sector for Floating Dry Dock"},"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\/10\/port-of-argentia.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Dry Dock Wars; Port of Argentia Signs MOU with Private Sector for Floating Dry Dock\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Port of Argentia (used with permission by the Port of Argentia)<\/p>\n<p>The province has issued an RFP for a floating dry dock for the Bull Arm site, but it\u2019s not the only attempt to have such a facility established in the province. <\/p>\n<p>Mammoet Canada Eastern Limited, the Port of Argentia, and Argentia Capital Incorporated have signed an MOU to move forward on the development of a floating dry dock and marine repair facility at Argentia. <\/p>\n<p>The Port of Argentia says at the centre of the initiative is Mommoet\u2019s subsidiary Tugdock Submersible Platforms which supplies modular floating dry dock systems designed to accommodate a range of vessels and industrial operations. <\/p>\n<p>Managing Director of Mammoet, Jeremy Asher says they see \u201csignificant potential\u201d in developing a \u201ccompetitive marine repair and servicing operation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Port of Argentia (used with permission by the Port of Argentia) The province has issued an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945949,"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-945948","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\/945948","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=945948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}