The President of the B.C. Chamber of Shipping says there's nowhere to put the container ship moored south of Victoria.
The 279-metre-long container ship Hanjin Vienna has been moored at Constance Bank than two weeks.
“That’s a very big vessel and you can imagine something that size pretty much takes up an entire dock,” says Robert Lewis-Manning.
Lewis-Manning says Hanjin, the company which owns the vessel, has filed for bankruptcy.
The Vienna has not paid all its bills in BC and it’s under arrest to stay in Canadian Coastal waters and will stay at Constance Bank while those legal matters are resolved.
There is hope that the Vienna pulls up anchor this week to go back to the lower mainland for a logistically stop.
“I do know that through the actions of a number of people over the weekend that this vessel will shortly weigh anchor. They will probably refuel, re-provision, and I have been told that about half the crew will be changed out by the company that owns the ship itself.”
The Vienna is carrying over two dozen multi-national crew members.