Canadian Forest Navigation (Canfornav) is a Canadian shipping firm. It operates a fleet of close to four dozen

bulk carrier A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo — such as grains, coal, ore, steel coils, and cement — in its cargo holds. Since the first specialized bulk carrier was built in 1852, econom ...

s. Most of these vessels' voyages are between ports on the

North American Great Lakes The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the mid-east region of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. There are five lak ...

or the

St Lawrence Seaway The St. Lawrence Seaway (french: la Voie Maritime du Saint-Laurent) is a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North Americ ...

. '' Boat nerd'' reported in 2002 the firm had employed chartered vessels, in the past. However, because the cost per ton of newly built ships had dropped, they were going to begin ordering newly built vessels.

References

{{Reflist, refs= {{cite news , url = http://www.hwyh2o.com/highlights201111.html , title = Highlights: Canadian Forest Navigation (Canfornav) , publisher = Hwy H2O , archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130720025629/http://www.hwyh2o.com/highlights201111.html , archivedate = 2013-07-20 , accessdate = 2015-09-18 , url-status = dead , quote = The M/V Torrent is one of 12 new bulk carriers of the same class and size built in the last three years for the Canfornav fleet suitable to trade the Great Lakes. Except for the Labrador, her sister ships, the Andean, Barnacle, Blacky, Brant, Chestnut, Maccoa, Mottler, Ruddy, Shoveler, Tufty, and Tundra have all visited the Great Lakes-Seaway System since the 2008 shipping season. {{cite news , url = http://archive.newswire.ca/en/story/360103/naming-ceremony-of-a-new-canfornav-vessel-at-the-port-of-montreal , title = Naming Ceremony of a new Canfornav vessel at the Port of Montreal , publisher = Market wire , author = , date = 2008-11-03 , page = , location = , accessdate = 2015-09-18 , quote = {{cite news , url = http://www.boatnerd.com/passage/mackrip.htm , title = Straits of Mackinac Round Island Passage , publisher = Boatnerd , author = Fred Stone , date = 2015-09-17 , page = , location = , accessdate = 2015-09-18 , quote = {{cite news , url = http://archive.boatnerd.com/archive/12-02/000059b6.htm , title = Re: Higher Prmice? , publisher = Boat nerd , author = , date = 2002-05-02 , page = , location = , accessdate = 2015-09-18 , quote = The company believes prices have hit rock bottom for this class of ship and is considering a joint-venture with another shipowner that would enable both parties to exploit the multi-ship deals offered by the yards. {{cite news , url = http://www.canfornav.com/en/fleet.aspx , title = Fleet , publisher = Canfornav , author = , date = , page = , location = , accessdate = 2015-09-18 , quote = {{cite news , url = http://splash247.com/canfornav-pays-17m-for-handy-pair/ , title = Canfornav pays $17m for handy pair , publisher = Splash 24/7 , author = Hans Thaulow , date = 2015-09-16 , page = , location = , accessdate = 2015-09-18 , quote = Brokers say the company has spent close to $17m for two 2010 built ships, the 30,688 dwt Haloise and the 29,800 dwt Emilie. Shipping companies of Canada