Vancouver Shipyards, a part of Seaspan Shipyards, is a shipbuilding site for building large, complex non-combat vessels under Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS). The company offers ship construction, repair, planned maintenance, and dry-docking services for the Government of Canada.
Victoria Shipyards operates within the federally-owned Esquimalt Graving Dock (EGD), a commercial drydock. It offers features such as on-site shops for steel fabrication, welding, sheet metal assembly, pipe fabrication and welding, machine shop, valve testing, electrical, joinery, sandblasting booth, and spray-painting booth; program management and engineering; and offsite warehousing and logistics support.