Hullo (ferry)

Vancouver Island Ferry Company (known as Hullo) is a Canadian passenger-only ferry service. It is based in Nanaimo, British Columbia and they operate across the Salish Sea with sailings between Nanaimo and Vancouver. They are considered a rival competitor to BC Ferries.

In 2022, investment management company InfraRed Capital Partners announced that they were creating Vancouver Island Ferry Company as a way for more people to cross from Nanaimo to Vancouver due to the increase of population for the two cities. This came after the failed start-up of four different ferry services in the past, such as HarbourLynx. Hullo has 2 vessels that they sail with. They were built in June 2023 and are named the spuhéls and sthuqi’, Halkomelem language words for both wind and sockeye salmon.

Hullo had originally wanted to have their first sailings on August 14, 2023 but they had to be cancelled because of bad weather and power outages. The sailings the next day were also cancelled. On August 16, the first sailing officially launched in a limited capacity with 189 passengers.

On August 17, 2024, its one-year anniversary, Hullo announced that the service officially had 400,000 passengers in its first year.

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