Transportation

When a 2013 market feasibility study prepared for the MS Chi-Cheemaun showed a steady decline in the ferry’s ridership, the ship’s operator, the Owen Sound Transportation Company (OSTC), sat up and took notice.

Canada’s trucking industry is speeding towards a driver shortage more rapidly than previously thought. The shortage is already being felt in Northern Ontario, and industry groups are working to combat the shortage, pressuring government for support.

A U.K. company, Hybrid Air Vehicles , has announced its Airlander dirigible has successfully completed its first flight. During the Aug.

Tallman Group of Mississauga announced Aug. 2 it has completed the acquisition of Tru-Nor Truck Centres, effective Aug. 1.

Since Porter Airlines touched down in Thunder Bay in 2009, they’ve been rewarded with a million passengers between the northwestern Ontario city and the regional airline’s hub at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.

Passenger rail preservationists are facing a steep grade after Transport Canada pulled a critical federal subsidy to restore the northeastern Ontario service. Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau made it known during a trip to Sault Ste.

The Sault Ste. Marie Airport has received $360,868 for upgrades to its airside electrical power systems. The federal funding, announced July 20 by Transport Minister Marc Garneau, comes from the Airports Capital Assistance Program.

Aviation industry veteran Stephen Smith was named to the new board of directors of Wasaya Airways at its annual meeting in Thunder Bay.

Four-laning has been completed on another section of Highway 69. Eleven kilometres of road, stretching between north of Highway 64 and north of Highway 607 near the Municipality of French River is done and will soon be open to the public.

Ontario Northland in North Bay has been awarded a contract from CANARAIL to refurbish Rocky Mountaineer luxury passenger rail cars.