Damen Shipyards Galati, part of the Dutch Damen Group, has laid the keel for the first two of four fully electric ferries for Canadian ferry operator BC Ferries.
The keel laying ceremony, which took place in Romania on November 1, 2024, marked “an important milestone” in the third phase of construction of the Island Class ferries which will bring the total number of Damen vessels in the BC Ferries fleet to ten.
