A Campbell River boatbuilding company has been awarded a $74.7-million contract to build three coastal patrol vessels for the RCMP.
Ocean Pacific Marine will build the aluminum vessels through a joint venture with Camarc Design, a Scottish naval architecture firm whose high-speed patrol-vessel designs are used by police, coast guard, naval and rescue agencies around the world.
The RCMP will use the 27-metre-long vessels to police B.C.’s 26,000 kilometres of coastline, where the Mounties provide law enforcement, search and rescue and emergency response for remote coastal communities.
In a statement, Bruce Kempling, founder and president of Ocean Pacific Marine, said the contract is “recognition that a small business from
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