Victoria to Seattle ferry service cuts sailings as travel remains low – BC [Video]

A ferry service between Victoria and Seattle is already making changes to its summer schedule due to the ongoing U.S. trade war.

Clipper Navigation usually offers two round trips a day multiple times a week during the peak summer period, but will now only be offering one sailing each day and there will be no double sailing days.

The company said it has also had to lay off about 20 people from its Seattle office.

It says no one has been laid off from the Victoria office, but employees may not be offered as many shifts, affecting about 10 people.

“We’re seeing an overall downturn in traffic,” Mark Collins, the CEO of Clipper Navigation told Global News.

“Traffic heading southbound out of Canada is down 35 per cent and U.S. originating traffic is down seven to 12 per cent, so it’s fairly significant reductions across the board and I think …