TSB investigating incident where Labrador company's ship was damaged during fuel transfer in Nunavut

Alex Kennedy · CBC News

· Posted: Nov 06, 2025 4:30 AM EST | Last Updated: November 6

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating harm done to a ferry tanker owned by a Labrador institution during a substance transportation successful Nunavut successful October.

The Kivalliq W., a 129-metre vessel owned by Coastal Shipping Limited — an affiliate of the Woodward Group of Companies — suffered a mechanical nonaccomplishment connected Oct. 15.

The vessel was damaged portion discharging diesel for transportation to a Nunavut excavation site. No 1 was injured and nary hydrocarbons were spilled, Peter Woodward, CEO of the Woodward Group of Companies, antecedently told CBC News.

A replacement vas was brought successful erstwhile the harm occurred.

Woodward said astatine the clip that a substance vessel was damaged during the discharge.

In an emailed connection to CBC News connected Wednesday afternoon, TSB media relations co-ordinator Hugo Fontaine wrote that investigators boarded the vas successful Happy Valley-Goose Bay connected Wednesday to statesman their investigation.

A TSB probe has 3 phases: information postulation successful the field, introspection and investigation and a reporting phase.

Fontaine wrote that investigators began the information postulation signifier connected Wednesday.

"The tract signifier typically includes witnesser interviews, introspection of the vas and affected cargo tank(s), tract documentation, and postulation of records and data. This enactment volition pass however we classify the occurrence," Fontaine wrote, adding third-party details of the incidental can't yet beryllium validated.

Examination and investigation is often done disconnected tract from vessels and begins erstwhile investigators permission the site, according to the TSB's website.

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