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Who we are.
Meet our management team:
Shawn Balding, P. Eng
General Manager
Shawn Balding is the General Manager of Canal Marine & Industrial Inc. He holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Victoria and has more than 25 years of electrical industry experience including roles as a patented power supply designer, North American engineering manager and global offer safety chair with multinational electrical equipment manufacturers. Since early 2018 Shawn has been wholly focused on advancing the marine industry towards a cleaner, sustainable and more electrified future.
Chris Wright, P. Eng
Chief Technology Officer
Chris Wright is the Chief Technology Officer of Canal Marine and Industrial Inc., has been working in the field of electrical engineering design since graduating over 30 years ago. For the last sixteen years he has specialized in the design of marine power and propulsion systems and has first-hand experience of the trend towards increasing electrification. Chris has been at the forefront of new trends in electrified propulsion, including alternative energy systems such as the Marilyn Bell I, a zero-emission ferry at the Toronto Island Airport. He has been responsible for the design and implementation of numerous hybrid workboats across Europe and N. America.
William (Bill) Inwood
Owner
Bill has led CANAL Marine and Industrial since 2013 where he began with a mandate to expand business and extend CANAL’s scope of marine electrical work. This expansion in capabilities included advanced marine electrical engineering services as well as engineered solutions tailored to address the complex power and propulsion demands of contemporary vessels and the evolving sustainability requirements of the maritime industry. Under Bill’s leadership CANAL has taken on projects covering off the electrification of ferries, hybrid propulsion of various workboats across North America, strengthened its electrical and communications services work and become an important engineering services arm at major Canadian shipyards as part of the National Shipbuilding Strategy.
CANAL is committed to advancing the marine industry's voyage to a more sustainable existence.
Delivering emission reducing engineered solutions, advanced power and propulsion design and electrical systems integration, CANAL ensures the reliability, energy savings and cost efficiency owners, builders and naval architects demand.
For over 50 years CANAL has been a reliable partner to the marine industry providing vessels with electrical maintenance, repair, retrofit, vessel life extension as well as engineering services and strategy. Reach out today so we can help navigate your next marine engineering project to a successful launch.
We’re ready to help
Reduce vessel operational costs.
The marine industry is pushing to reduce its reliance on diesel power generation that is costly to run and expensive to maintain. Learn how CANAL can help transition your diesel vessels, delivering cost savings and emissions reductions for owners and fleet operators.
Avoid ship building delays, let CANAL handle your complicated systems integrations.
CANAL's expert marine electrical engineering resources can support a shipyard's core staff and help manage the integration of OEM equipment to ensure efficient power management and to keep your build on schedule.
Maximize vessel reliability with power, propulsion and electrical management efficiency.
CANAL helps today's naval architects meet the challenge of designing vessels that maximize power efficiency, reduce overall ship emissions while maintaining the highest level of on the water reliability.
What Our Customers Say
What we do
Marine Engineered Solutions
Engineered solutions to meet diverse and difficult electrical marine challenges including systems integration for vessel power and propulsion retrofits and new builds.
Engineering Services for Maritime Needs
Supplying the proven engineering services support to meet the electrical marine capability gaps in your resource portfolio.
Navigation, Communication and Electrical
Installations, maintenance, repairs and upgrades for vessel electrical and electronics infrastructure.
SPOTLIGHT
CANAL is proud to be a supplier of strategic marine electrical engineering services to Seaspan as it helps fulfil its roll under Canada's National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS).
"On the first new build vessels that we constructed as part of the NSS program, CANAL was instrumental in setting to work the engines and getting the main generation and switchboards lit off so we could actually go to sea on those vessels. It wouldn't have happened without Canal honestly."
– Luke Staff, Seaspan
