Summary - Canadian Industry Statistics

Definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating a shipyard or manufacturing boats. Shipyards are fixed facilities with dry docks and fabrication equipment capable of building a ship, defined as water-craft suitable or intended for other than personal or recreational use.

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  Boats are defined as water-craft suitable or intended for personal or recreational use. The activities of shipyards include the construction of ships, their repair, conversion and alteration, the production of prefabricated ship sections and barge sections, and specialized services, such as ship scaling, when performed at the shipyard.

  Exclusions

  Establishments primarily engaged in:
  ship painting, carpentry work, and electrical wiring installation (238, Specialty Trade Contractors)
  manufacturing rubber boats and life rafts, except rigid hull inflatable boats (32629, Other Rubber Product Manufacturing)
  manufacturing prefabricated metal boat sections, not at a boatyard.manufacturing prefabricated metal ship, boat and barge sections.