About SILA North Marine Services

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Captain Jim Ewart MM is SILA's Senior Marine Consultant and leads our maritime division. Jim, a Master Mariner, brings to the company a broad range of post-secondary course development, technical writing and teaching experience including over 30 years of active command service on ocean going vessels that routinely operate in Canada’s northern ice infested waters.

Jim has many years of marine related business experience in the private and public sectors. He has an extensive background in program evaluation, legislative review, developing job specific training curriculum, classroom course delivery and technical writing.

He has worked directly with a range of companies from small start-up enterprises to large corporations and he has also published several Transport Canada accredited training manuals.

 
 

SILA has provided Arctic navigation expertise, operational sea-ice evaluations, technical writing and northern seafaring advice to a number of our consulting contracts, including:

  • Establishment of a Sea Port - Qikiqtarjuaq Port of Qikiqtarjuaq: Concept Paper. October 2013
  • Iqaluit Causeway – Preliminary Review. Prepared For Department Of Economic Development & Transportation, Government of Nunavut. May 2014
  • Port Land Use and Economic Feasibility Study: Propelling Change in the Arctic. Prepared for the Canadian Northern Economic Agency (CanNor), Government of Canada. October 2015

In addition to the previous assignments above, SILA has been awarded several Standing Offer Agreements (SOA) with the Government of Nunavut including the following marine transportation related SOAs listed below:

  • RFP # 2014-10 SOA - Department of Community & Government Services (CGS) - Policy Writing, Research, Communications, Sealift Consulting, Strategic Planning, Economic Analysis ...
  • RFP # 2014-48 SOA - Department of Community & Government Services (CGS) - Transportation Planning & Engineering Consulting Services...
 

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SILA Marine Services Brochure

 

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