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Montreal firm is making headway on building giant airships to serve northern Canada

Mark Lowey
February 14, 2024

Buoyed by a $77-million Quebec government investment, a Montreal company is making progress on building giant airships for transporting cargo to remote communities and mining sites in Canada’s North.

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Organizations:	ALIAD, Buoyant Aircraft Systems International (BASI), Canadian Arctic Innovation Association, Canadian North airlines, CanArctic Inuit Networks, Delastek, Flying Whales, French Tech Souveraineté, government of France, Government of Quebec, Groupe ADP, Honeywell Aerospace, ISO Polar Airships, Keewatin Tribal Council, Les Dirigables Flying Whales Québec, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Principality of Monaco, Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, State of Victoria (Australia), Thales Canada, Transport Canada, and University of Manitoba
People:	Arnaud Thioulouse, Dr. Barry Prentice, PhD, Madeleine Redfern, and Ron Hoschstetler
Topics:	addressing high unemployment in Canada's North, airships compared with tractor-trailer units, airships for transporting cargo, airships servicing remote mining sites, airships to service Canada's North, applications for airships, building airships in Australia, building airships in France, Cargo Airship Strategy for Northern Canada (study), cost of building roads in Canada's North, creating a Canadian airship industry, design and construction of airships, federal government policy on airships, federal Nutrition North program, food insecurity in Canada's North, high cost of transporting goods to Canada's North, Hindenburg dirigible accident, ice roads in Canada's North, innovative transportation technologies, problems with house construction in Canada's North, Quebec government investment in airships, shortening of ice roads season due to climate change, technical challenges to building airships, Thompson, Manitoba as a test centre for airships, using hydrogen gas in airships, and winter testing and certification of airships

Montreal firm is making headway on building giant airships to serve northern Canada

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