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The ferry work betwixt Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia volition person 2 ships successful rotation for the engaged tourer play starting Sunday, June 15.
This volition beryllium 1st play connected the h2o for MV Northumberland, formerly the Fanafjord
Gwyneth Egan · CBC News
· Posted: Jun 13, 2025 12:59 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 13
The ferry work betwixt Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia volition person 2 ships successful rotation for the engaged tourer play starting Sunday, June 15.
This is the archetypal play the MV Northumberland — antecedently the MV Fanafjord — volition beryllium connected the water.
The national authorities purchased the conveyance and rider ferry from its Norwegian owner for $43 cardinal successful 2023 arsenic a replacement for the Holiday Island, which had to beryllium scrapped aft a occurrence successful the summertime of 2022.
With some the MV Confederation and MV Northumberland successful service, Northumberland Ferries volition person 8 scheduled crossings a day.
Departures volition instrumentality spot astir each 90 minutes, with the archetypal astatine 7 a.m. and the past astatine 6:30 p.m.
The lone different enactment for crossing betwixt Prince Edward Island and mainland Canada by vehicle is the Confederation Bridge, which connects occidental P.E.I. and New Brunswick.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gwyneth Egan is simply a integer writer astatine CBC Prince Edward Island. She is simply a postgraduate of Carleton University's maestro of journalism programme and antecedently interned with White Coat, Black Art. You tin scope her astatine [email protected]
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