Levels of service review - 2007
Icebreaking, Escort and Flood control

Follow-up

• Review the priorities and increase the resources in order to support commercial activities and economic development, both at the local and regional levels.

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• Apply for the icebreaking service, a list of priorities identical throughout the country and enhance the flexibility for transferring icebreaking units in response to unforeseen situations.

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• Identify the St. Lawrence Seaway in the icebreaking service list of priorities and establish target delays for icebreakers response..
  

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• Provide the services of an icebreaker in the St. Lawrence Seaway, by March 20th of each year in order to allow ships convoys to meet.
  

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• Task a T-1200 class icebreaker in the Trois-Rivières sector, to keep Lake St-Pierre free of ice jams particularly at night.
  

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• Provide industry with an icebreaking schedule on the Saguenay River.

• Provide the services of a T-1200 class icebreaker in the Saguenay to reduce delays and navigation costs for the Panamax type vessels.

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• Increase the level of service in the Eastern sectors because resources are deemed insifficient at all times, particularly in the spring.
  

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• Provide the same level of service to all regions of Canada.
  

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• Provide better coordination between CCG icebreaking activities and DFO fishery surveillance activities.
  

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• Significantly increase the levels of service on the Lower North-Shore to support local economy.

• Task a lower class icebreaker at the end of winter to breakout shallow water fishing harbours on the Lower North-Shore

• Provide icebreaking sooner, e.g. 10 days before the Nordik Express, to allow hunting boats out for the opening of the seal hunt.

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• Pay special attention to ice cover monitoring in the lower part of Lake St-Pierre because large ice packs breaking off the flats can cause serious problems to shipping.

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• Facilitate ice chart access on the Marinfo Internet site.

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