Nice spring like weather happening at moment. People are doing spring like things such as going off to cabins, camping and soon ice fishing. No caribou to speak of though, some people heading north as far as Hebron so maybe?

It seems there is a rumor making the traps in Goose Bay of a new operator for the north coast run of the Provincial ferry service.

At the moment the province owns the vessels mv Northern Ranger and mv Sir Robert Bond. The province contracts out the operation of both vessels to the Woodward Group at moment.

The same company owns and charters the mv Astron to government for freight only runs to the north coast. The same company acts as wharfinger in all the ports.

The unconfirmed reports are than the change will come into play this shipping season, it has been known about for some weeks but no official announcement.

Strange that no reporters have pursued the rumor, then knowing a little about how things play in politics and business [one and the same thing] maybe it is not so strange, just disappointing.

The new configurations of boats and schedules should be interesting. One change bandied about is that the Bond will take over one of the runs to the coast, most likely freight.

This would be a vast step backwards in the never ending effort to improve shipping services. Beside it being too bloody old and decrepit the vessel is too large for some ports and too large capacity wise for the amounts of freight shipped to the coast on a bi-weekly basis.