{"id":10995,"date":"2014-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/news-new-digby-ferry-is-crossing-ocean\/"},"modified":"2014-11-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T04:00:00","slug":"news-new-digby-ferry-is-crossing-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/news-new-digby-ferry-is-crossing-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"News: New Digby Ferry is Crossing Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digby Courier - November 22, 2014<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian government has bought the ferry to replace the Princess of Acadia on the Digby \u2013 Saint John run. It left Greece in mid-November, passed through the Straits of Gibraltar on Nov. 21 and as of 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 22 it was headed west across the wide open ocean.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson with Transport Canada wasn\u2019t able to say by press time where exactly in Canada the vessel is headed.<\/p>\n<p>He did say once the ship gets here, its engines will undergo a 72,000-hour overhaul and conversion from heavy fuel to marine diesel oil.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">He said they will also carry out minor modifications to ensure the vessel complies with Canadian safety regulations, and is compatible with existing shore-based infrastructure and for operation in the Bay of Fundy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The engine overhaul needs to be completed by the original equipment manufacturer and the modification work will be subject to a future tendering process.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">The vessel is expected to be in service in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ferry\u2019s progress can be observed on ship traffic websites like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vesselfinder.com\/vessels\/CANADA2014-IMO-9203916-MMSI-316013219\">vesselfinder.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinetraffic.com\/en\/ais\/home\/centerx:-16.91281\/centery:32.64207\/zoom:8\/mmsi:316013219\/shipid:211278\">marinetraffic.com<\/a>\u00a0when it is near shore. It is listed under the name Canada2014.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected to be near the Azores by 6 p.m. on Nov. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Read more, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novanewsnow.com\/News\/Local\/2014-11-22\/article-3948474\/New-Digby-ferry-is-crossing-the-ocean\/1\">ici pour<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digby Courier - November 22, 2014 The Canadian government has bought the ferry to replace the Princess of Acadia on the Digby \u2013 Saint John run. It left Greece in mid-November, passed through the Straits of Gibraltar on Nov. 21 and as of 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 22 it was headed west across the wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}