Yet there is something else to his spiel, an underlying frustration over the fact he is having to sell his yard as the best place to build the desperately needed polar icebreaker. Originally budgeted at $721 million, the polar icebreaker was supposed to be delivered by 2017 and replace the Coast Guard's flagship, the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent. Seaspan says if gets the contract to build the polar icebreaker, it will hire Newfoundland-based Genoa Design International to do part of the work. Chantier-Davie is considered to be Seaspan's rival for the CCGS John G. Diefenbaker contract. "As has always been the case, Davie is the only shipbuilder capable of delivering the polar icebreaker.''

Source: CBC News September 21, 2020 15:32 UTC