Organized as a privately held company, with the provincial Crown as sole shareholder
Industry
Transportation
Founded
Victoria, British Columbia (June 15, 1960)
Headquarters
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Key people
Joy MacPhail, Chair Nicolas Jimenez, President & CEO
Products
Ferry service
Revenue
C$769.5 million (2023)[1]
Operating income
(7.070) million (2023)[1]
Net income
C$1.842 million (2021)[1]
Owner
BC Ferry Authority (Government of British Columbia)
Number of employees
4,500 (2017)
Website
www.bcferries.com
British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., operating as BC Ferries (BCF), 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. Set up in 1960 to provide a similar service to that provided by the Black Ball Line and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which were affected by job action at the time, BC Ferries has become the largest passenger ferry line in North America,[2] operating a fleet of 41 vessels with a total passenger and crew capacity of over 27,000, serving 47 locations on the B.C. coast.
The 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. The inland ferries operating on British Columbia's rivers and lakes are not run by BC Ferries. The responsibility for their provision rests with the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, which contracts operation to various private sector companies.
^ abc"BC Ferry Services, Annual Rept, 31 Mar 2023". www.bcferries.com. p. 20.
^"Vancouver Tours: Victoria & Butchart Gardens Bus & Ferry Tour from Vancouver". Retrieved August 31, 2011. Crossing the Fraser River Delta and through the agricultural land surrounding Metro Vancouver this short half hour drive ends at the BC Ferries Terminal where your bus will drive right onto a ship belonging to the second largest ferry fleet in the world.
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Global Information
C$769.5 million (2023)[1]
C$1.842 million (2021)[1]