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Sealift Incorporated is an American

United States

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Ship transport

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based in Oyster Bay, New York

Oyster Bay (town), New York

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. 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 fleet consists of eleven ships: container ship

Container ship

Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport.-History:...

s, general cargo ships

Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...

, 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 .

Sealift Inc has collective bargaining agreements with the Seafarer's International Union and the American Maritime Officers

American Maritime Officers

American Maritime Officers is a national labor union affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America. With an active membership of approximately 4,000, AMO is the largest union of merchant marine officers in the U.S. and primarily represents licensed mariners working in the...

union.

History

Originally a shipbrokerage house specializing in paper, rice, and general cargo, Sealift Inc operated breakbulk

Break bulk cargo

In shipping, break bulk cargo or general cargo is a term that covers a great variety of goods that must be loaded individually, and not in intermodal containers nor in bulk as with oil or grain. Ships that carry this sort of cargo are often called general cargo ships...

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

The Pentagon

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with private cargo vessels which it can be 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

Iraq

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Between the beginning of fiscal year 2000 and the first quarter of fiscal 2008, Sealift Inc. was awarded US$402,151,046 in 207 separate transactions. $355,689,427 was allocated from the Department of the Navy, $24,610,262 from the U.S. Agency for International Development, and $21,851,357 from the Department of the Army.

Fleet

Name	Type	Built	GT	DWT
Sealift Inc. fleet
	Container Container ship Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport.-History:... /General Cargo ship A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...	July 1, 1977	18,296	27,750
	General Cargo ship A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...	January 1, 1993	3,972	4,152
	Container Container ship Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport.-History:...	October 1, 1984	29,226	41,812
	Container Container ship Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport.-History:...	January 1, 1978	26,409	27,192
	General Cargo ship A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...	October 1, 1969	15,836	22,568
	Container Container ship Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport.-History:...	1985	34,318	34,100
	Bulk carrier Bulk carrier A bulk carrier, bulk freighter, or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, and cement in its cargo holds. Since the first specialized bulk carrier was built in 1852, economic forces have fueled the development of these ships,...	April 1, 1978	15,531	25,952
	Container Container ship Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport.-History:... /General Cargo ship A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...	July 1, 1977	16,840	24,792
	Bulk carrier Bulk carrier A bulk carrier, bulk freighter, or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, and cement in its cargo holds. Since the first specialized bulk carrier was built in 1852, economic forces have fueled the development of these ships,...	April 1, 1978	15,531	25,952
	Container Container ship Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport.-History:... /General Cargo ship A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...	July 11, 1996	3,838	5,151
	General	1984	16,169	21,541
	General Cargo ship A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...	July 1, 1969	15,836	22,568

Sealift's fleet consists of eleven ships, each of which is a container ship

Container ship

, a general cargo ship

Cargo ship

, or a combination general/container ship. ranging from 12 to 39 years of age. The two steamships and are the oldest, having been built in 1969. The newest ship is the which was built in 1996. The average age for all of Sealift's ships is slightly over 27 years.

The company's fleet has a capacity of over . The and are the two largest at and respectively. The company operates two small ships under : the and the .

The company previously owned and operated the oil tanker

Oil tanker

An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a merchant ship designed for the bulk transport of oil. There are two basic types of oil tankers: the crude tanker and the product tanker. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to refineries...

MT Montauk which carried jet fuel

Jet fuel

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and other petroleum products between South Korea

South Korea

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and Japan

Japan

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under a charter from Military Sealift Command

Military Sealift Command

The Military Sealift Command is a United States Navy organization that controls most of the replenishment and military transport ships of the Navy. It first came into existence on 9 July 1949 when the Military Sea Transportation Service became solely responsible for the Department of Defense's...

. but sold the ship to the Cypriot

Cyprus

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company Kalia Maritime Co. Ltd. on February 1, 2007.

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