MV Apollo crashes into Quebec dock just weeks after it left Labrador

There's a hole approximately three feet by six feet wide in the hull of the MV Apolloafter it smashed into a dock inGodbout,Que., Monday morning, according to a spokesperson for Quebec's provincial ferries.

The crash came mere weeks after it was replaced by the MV Qajaqin Labrador andsold for $2.1 million tolaSocitdestraversiersduQubecto serviceits routes betweenMatanein the Gasp regionandBaie-ComeauandGodbouton Quebec's North Shore.

"We're feeling right now kind of unlucky,"saidAlexandreLavoie, an STQ spokesperson.

"Fortunately, there was no one injured and all the passengers were able to leave the ship normally."

The Apollo was built in 1970 and came to Labrador in 1999 from the Baltic Sea.

The ferrywas with Labrador Marine for nearly 20 years, servicing its runsin the Strait of Belle Isle between St. Barbe and Blanc-Sablon. The MV Qajaqtook over the job in late January.

Lavoiesaid there is a team from STQ en route to Godbout to assess the damage to ship's hull.

In the meantime, crossings on itsroute are cancelled until further notice, he said.

"We will notify our clients as soon as possible for what will happen in the next days. We're trying to find alternative transportation so that people will be impacted as little as possible."

Lavoie said the cause of the incident is under investigation.

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