March 13, 2024

HaiSea Marine, majority owned by Haisla Nation in partnership with Seaspan ULC, unveiled its new floating operations facility with an official naming and blessing ceremony.

Zewén will be the home base for the world’s greenest tugboat fleet in Haisla traditional territory.

“Zewén” is the Haisla word for Coho and is now also the name of HaiSea’s operations and maintenance facility. The location where the Zewén will be secured in Kitimat inspired the name from Haisla Nation Hereditary Chief, Basil Grant. His family has been fishing for Coho in that exact spot for generations. Now the site will carry a new legacy as the home base for HaiSea’s fleet that will support LNG carriers calling at LNG Canada’s new export facility.

Read the official news release here.