11 Facts About BC Ferries

British Columbia Ferry Services Inc, operating as BC Ferries, is a former provincial Crown corporation, now operating as an independently managed, publicly owned Canadian company.

BC Ferries provides all major passenger and vehicle ferry services for coastal and island communities in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Federal and provincial governments subsidize BC Ferries to provide agreed service levels on essential links between the BC mainland, coastal islands, and parts of the mainland without road access.

At its inception, BC Ferries was a division of the British Columbia Toll Highways and Bridges Authority, a provincial Crown corporation.

In 2003, the Government of British Columbia announced that BC Ferries, which had been in debt, would be reorganized into a private corporation, implemented through the passage of the Coastal Ferry Act.

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The single voting share of BC Ferries Corporation is held by the provincial government's BC Ferry Authority, which operates under the rules of the Act.

The distinctive "dogwood on green" flag that BC Ferries used between 1960 and 2003 gave the service its popular nickname "the Dogwood Fleet".

On September 17,2004, BC Ferries awarded the vessel construction contract to Germany's Flensburger shipyard.

BC Ferries has stated that total standardization of the BC Ferries fleet will not be complete for another 40 years.

BC Ferries has the largest fleet of vehicle ferry vessels in the world.

On July 1,2005, BC Ferries issued a statement that Transport Canada, the Transportation Safety Board, and Lloyd's Register of Shipping were reviewing the control and mechanical systems on board to find a fault.