Serco is uniquely positioned to support Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS) and other commercial and International marine opportunities, with expertise spanning naval, coast guard, research, and civilian ships.
Drawing upon four decades of experience in integrated ship design, vessel operation and maintenance.
Our offering includes turn-key ship design services, as well naval architecture, marine engineering, detail and production design, and maritime services. Serco’s team has supported the development of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Joint Support Ship (JSS), the Halifax Class Patrol Frigates, the first fully electric green ferries in Ontario, and the Canadian Coast Guard’s Offshore Fisheries Science Vessels, among other high-profile vessels.
Our marine services
Serco offers end-to-end solution support in the maritime domain. With services that range from design consulting to ship design to maintenance and operational support, Serco’s service offering traces every stage of a project’s lifecycle.
Our vessels
Serco can meet the design requirements of all of our customers – naval, commercial, and international – by providing the unique ability to work with a customer from concept design all the way through to detail design and delivery of manufacturing information. Serco's vessel designs cover a wide range of capabilities from combatants, to amphibious assault vessels, to fully commercial support vessels.
Full lifecycle approach
Serco offers a full lifecycle approach for maritime assets from concept and ship design through to modernization, sustainment, and operations support. Our experience includes vessels operating in the most demanding conditions, from icebreakers to submarines and from advanced military ships to next-generation green transport.
As part of Serco Group, Serco Canada Marine is a global leader in naval architecture, with unmatched capabilities in engineering support for the design, acquisition, construction, and maintenance of submarines and surface ships. In Canada, we have a track record of success on vessels that present complex design challenges for clients in the defence, research, transportation, and commercial sectors.
Committed to Canada
Serco is strongly committed to Canada’s shipbuilding industry. Whether it’s supporting post-secondary programming or investing in the growth of Canadian small and medium sized companies, Serco is heavily invested in building strong and sustainable shipbuilding capability in country.
With a key presence in Ottawa and employees on both coasts, we have formed a partnership with the University of British Columbia’s Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Program. We also sponsor programs aimed to raise the awareness of STEM-based careers among Canadian youth as part of our investment in the next generation of scientific and technical talent to sustain the industry.