Variant of NAICS 1997 - Labour Force Survey (LFS) Industries

• 1 - Goods-Producing Sector
• 6 - Manufacturing
• 31-33 - Manufacturing
• 336 - Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• 3366 - Ship and Boat Building
• 33661 - Ship and Boat Building

336611 - Ship Building and Repairing

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating a shipyard. Shipyards are fixed facilities with drydocks and fabrication equipment capable of building a ship, defined as water-craft suitable or intended for other than 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.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • ship painting, carpentry work and electrical wiring installation (See 232 Trade Contracting)
  • manufacturing prefabricated metal ship, boat and barge sections, not at a shipyard (See 332319 Other Plate Work and Fabricated Structural Product Manufacturing)
  • ship repairing, not at a shipyard (See 488390 Other Support Activities for Water Transportation)

• Example Activities:

  • Barges, building
  • Drilling and production platforms, floating, oil and gas, building
  • Fishing boats, commercial, building
  • Hydrofoil vessels, building and repairing in shipyards
  • Ship repair, done in a shipyard
  • Ships (i.e., not suitable or intended for personal use), manufacturing
  • Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of building ships)