{"id":11079,"date":"2015-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/ontario-moves-forward-with-new-40m-pelee-island-ferry\/"},"modified":"2015-06-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T04:00:00","slug":"ontario-moves-forward-with-new-40m-pelee-island-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/ontario-moves-forward-with-new-40m-pelee-island-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Ontario moves forward with new $40M Pelee Island ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CTV Windsor - \u00a0June 11, 2015<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario government is moving forward with plans to build a new $40 million ferry to service Pelee Island.<\/p>\n<p>The province has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/mto\/en\/2015\/06\/ontario-investing-in-new-pelee-island-ferry.html\">awarded a contract for a new ferry<\/a> that will help transport the more than 60,000 visitors and residents that travel to the island each year.<\/p>\n<p>ASENAV, a ship-building company located in Valdivia, Chile, was awarded the contract, valued at $40 million.<\/p>\n<p>The new ferry will replace the M.V. Pelee Islander, which is 55 years old and has capacity for 196 passengers and 10 vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The M.V. Jiimaan, in operation since 1992, will also continue to service Pelee Island with capacity for 399 passengers and 35 automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>The new ferry will be able to carry a maximum of 399 passengers and either 34 cars, or 16 cars and four tractor trailers.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected to start operating in 2018 and will service the existing docks at Pelee Island, Leamington and Kingsville.<\/p>\n<p>Read more, \u00a0click <a href=\"http:\/\/windsor.ctvnews.ca\/ontario-moves-forward-with-new-40m-pelee-island-ferry-1.2417596\">ici pour<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CTV Windsor - \u00a0June 11, 2015 The Ontario government is moving forward with plans to build a new $40 million ferry to service Pelee Island. The province has awarded a contract for a new ferry that will help transport the more than 60,000 visitors and residents that travel to the island each year. ASENAV, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}