Sealift Inc.
| Limited liability company | |
| Industry | Shipping |
| Founded | 1975 |
| Headquarters | Oyster Bay, NY, USA |
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Key people
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John Raggio, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ragnar Knutsen Alan Alder Fred Isaksen |
| Website | http://www.sealiftinc.com |
Sealift Incorporated is an American shipping company based in Oyster Bay, New York. The privately held corporation was founded in 1975 by the four owners who remain the principal executives. Sealift Inc. is one of the largest ocean contractors for transporting U.S. food aid and participates in the Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement. Between the start of fiscal 2000 and the first quarter of 2008, Sealift Inc. was awarded US$402,151,046 in contracts.
Sealift's main fleet consists of eleven ships: container ships, general cargo ships, and a combination general/container ship. The fleet has ships from 12 to 39 years of age, includes two steamships, and three small ships under 10,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT). Separate from the main fleet, prior to October 2016 the company also owned and operated the ex-US Navy MSC HSV-2 Swift. However, on October 1, 2016 the Swift, which was sold to the United Arab Emirates' National Marine Dredging Company and the UAE military, was reported to have been sunk by an anti-ship missile in the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, off the coast of Yemen.
Sealift Inc has collective bargaining agreements with the Seafarer's International Union and the American Maritime Officers union.
Originally a shipbrokerage house specializing in paper, rice, and general cargo, Sealift Inc operated breakbulk liner services to the Mediterranean and from Brazil. The company currently operates a fleet of twelve U.S.-Flag, ocean-going and is one of the largest ocean transportation contractors for U.S. Government Food Aid cargoes.
Sealift Inc. is one of the largest ocean contractors for transporting U.S. food aid and participates in the Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement. This program, also known as VISA, supplies the Pentagon with private cargo vessels which it can use to support "contingency deployments." The program saves the government the cost of maintaining a large fleet that would be idle in peacetime. In 2003, the company was awarded an emergency three-month, $4 million contract from USAID to provide freight service to Iraq.
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