Chantier Naval Forillon (CNF)

Through the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS), the Government of Canada is driving economic growth, creating good jobs and protecting our national security by ensuring that the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) have the ships they need to carry out their important work.

Today, the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Public Services and Procurement, attended Naval Quebec’s Annual Conference, an annual meeting of the Québec Shipbuilding Supply Chain.

Minister Duclos announced that Canada has awarded a second NSS contract, valued at $16.47 million (including taxes), to Chantier Davie of Lévis, Québec, to advance work on a Polar-class icebreaker for the CCG.

As part of its fleet renewal plan, the CCG is acquiring two polar icebreakers, one to be built by Chantier Davie, with the other icebreaker being built by Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd. These ships will enable the CCG to operate in the Canadian Arctic throughout the year to complete missions in support of Indigenous peoples, northern communities, arctic sovereignty, high arctic science research, and to help respond to emergency situations.

Minister Duclos also provided an update on the procurement of up to 12 submarines for the RCN. Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), on behalf of the Department of National Defence (DND), posted a Request for Information (RFI) to gain further information on the procurement, construction, delivery timelines, and operational capabilities of potential suppliers of submarines to Canada.

In addition to the RFI, as part of this procurement process, Canada continues to meet with officials from allied countries, companies and navies in Europe and Asia that currently have or are in the process of building submarines that may meet Canada’s requirements.

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The Chantier Naval Forillon is pleased to announce the acquisition of the main assets of Les Entreprises maritimes Bouchard. This acquisition includes the buildings located in the Rivière-au-Renard industrial park, as well as the production equipment and rolling material.

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The Canadian Coast Guard has taken delivery of a new search and rescue (SAR) boat built by shipyard Chantier Naval Forillon based in Quebec.

CCGS Baie des Chaleurs is named after Chaleurs Bay, the portion of the Gulf of St Lawrence that sits between Quebec and New Brunswick. The newbuild belongs to a series of 20 new SAR boats named after geographical bays across Canada, hence their alternate designation of Bay-class.

The aluminium-hulled SAR boat was built to a design by naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) in compliance to Lloyd’s Register’s Special Service Craft rules. The RAL design is itself an improved variant of the Severn-class lifeboats operated by the UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Compared to the earlier RNLI boats, Baie des Chaleurs and its sisters each have a larger size, a greater range, and specific design elements that will allow operation even under extreme weather conditions, particularly along Canada’s Atlantic coast. The boat therefore has self-righting ability and is durable enough to withstand 12-metre seas and Beaufort Force 12 conditions.

Baie des Chaleurs has an LOA of 19 metres, a moulded beam of 6.3 metres, a draught of 1.67 metres, a gross tonnage of 75, and space for four crewmembers. Two MTU 10V2000 M94 diesel engines that each produce 1,200 kW drive fixed-pitch propellers to deliver a maximum speed of 25 knots.

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the Honourable Diane Lebouthillier, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, was in Gaspé to announce the contract award for the construction of the new Near-Shore Fishery Research Vessel (NSFRV), the Canadian Coast Guard’s first-ever diesel-electric hybrid vessel with a Battery Energy Storage System, designed to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels.

Following an open competitive process, Public Services and Procurement Canada, on behalf of the Canadian Coast Guard, awarded Chantier Naval Forillon in Gaspé, Quebec, a contract to build a diesel-electric hybrid NSFRV. This contract was awarded for $55.5 million (excluding taxes) as part of the National Shipbuilding Strategy, and will create and maintain up to 90 highly skilled and well-paying jobs in the region.

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“The vessel represents the accomplishment of the evolution of the crabbers that we have designed and built since the 1990s,” Navanex told Baird Maritime. “This new design uses high quality standards and is developed to be versatile, safe, and durable, in addition to having a very neat hull. She’s inspired to look like a large fishing vessel.”

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The Canadian Coast Guard has officially welcomed the CCGS Gabarus Bay to its fleet at the Lifeboat Station in Burgeo, Newfoundland and Labrador. This high-endurance search and rescue vessel is designed, equipped and crewed to respond to mariners needing assistance at sea.

In 2018, Gaspé, Quebec’s Chantier Naval Forillon and Wheatley, Ontario’s Hike Metal Products Ltd were awarded the construction of four new search and rescue (SAR) lifeboats each, building on the existing contract awarded in 2015 to build six SAR lifeboats each. The total value of the contracts for the SAR lifeboats is $180 million.

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