{"id":956716,"date":"2026-11-03T12:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956716\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:12:13","slug":"local-trucking-company-stressing-importance-of-increased-capacity-at-marine-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956716\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Trucking Company Stressing Importance of Increased Capacity at Marine Atlantic"},"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\/11\/akita-truck.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Local Trucking Company Stressing Importance of Increased Capacity at Marine Atlantic\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The owner of a local trucking company is part of a coalition pushing to increase capacity on the Gulf ferry run. <\/p>\n<p>Chris Howlett of the NL Gulf Ferry Coalition recently travelled to Ottawa to impress on MPs the importance of keeping the Leif Ericson in Marine Atlantic\u2019s fleet once<a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/10\/30\/marine-atlantics-new-swing-vessel-expected-to-join-gulf-run-in-the-next-few-weeks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the \u00cele Rouge begins service<\/a> as a swing vessel on the Gulf run. <\/p>\n<p>Howlett, who owns Akita Equipment, says Marine Atlantic needs to maintain a five vessel fleet. <\/p>\n<p>He says bookings on Marine Atlantic were 130 per cent over capacity, at times, this past summer. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to get people here if we don\u2019t have the capacity to get them here on the ferries. We need more capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) The owner of a local trucking company is part of a coalition pushing to increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956717,"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-956716","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\/956716","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=956716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}