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More than 530 of the Halifax Shipyard’s 1,500 employees worked on HMCS Halifax DWP. This includes 440 apprentice and journeyperson crane operators, electricians, engine fitters, ironworkers, joiners/stagers, labourers, material handlers, pipefitters, riggers, and welders, who are members of Unifor Local 1.
HMCS Halifax DWP at Halifax Shipyard resulted in over $30 million in spending with more than 60 suppliers. Forty-eight Nova Scotia-based suppliers worked with Halifax Shipyard on the Halifax DWP, including Maritime Pressure Works, MacKinnon & Olding, CMS Steel Pro, and Gil-Son Construction, among others.
HMCS Halifax was the first of the Royal Canadian Navy’s seven east coast Halifax-class frigates to complete a mid-life overhaul at the Halifax Shipyard as part of the Government of Canada’s Halifax-class Modernization program. HMCS Halifax’s mid-life overhaul took place at Halifax Shipyard from 2010 to 2012.
All seven frigates overhauled at the Halifax Shipyard between 2010 and 2016 – Halifax, Fredericton, Montreal, Charlottetown, St. John’s, Ville de Quebec, and Toronto – were completed on schedule and under budget.
The mid-life modernization included a new Combat Management System, new radar capability, a new electronic warfare system, upgraded communications and missiles, as well as a new Integrated Platform Management System.
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