Sealift Incorporated

Sealift Incorporated

Infobox_Company
company_name = Sealift Incorporated
company_
company_type = Limited liability company
foundation = 1975
location_city = flagicon|New York Oyster Bay, NY
location_country = USA
key_people = John Raggio: Owner, chairman and chief executive officer. Ragnar Knutsen, Alan Alder, Fred Isaksen, owners
industry = Shipping
products =
revenue =
net_income =
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homepage = http://www.sealiftinc.com
phone = (516) 922-1000
fax = (516) 922-1125
email =

Sealift Incorporated is a American shipping company based in Oyster Bay, New York.Sealift Inc 2008, "Home Page".] The privately-held corporation was founded in 1975 by the four owners who remain the principal executives.Cite web| title = Windfalls of War - The Center for Public Integrity | accessdate = 2007-10-08 | url = http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=52 ] 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, comprised of 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 DWT|10,000|metric|first=yes.

Sealift Inc has collective bargaining agreements with the Seafarer's International Union and the American Maritime Officers union.cite web |url=http://www.amo-union.org/newspaper/Morgue/11-2004/Sections/News/sagamore.htm |title= Non-union operator wins charter held by Sagamore |accessdate=2007-09-26 |author=American Maritime Officers |coauthors= |date=2004-11 |work=AMO Currents |publisher=]

History

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 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.

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.USAspending.gov 2008, "Contracts to SEALIFT HOLDINGS INC (FY 2000-2008)".] $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

Sealift's fleet consists of eleven ships, each of which is a container ship, a general cargo ship, or a combination general/container ship. ranging from 12 to 39 years of age.Citations for individual ship statistics shown in table to the right.] The two steamships SS|Wilson and SS|Cleveland are the oldest, having been built in 1969. The newest ship is the MV|Sagamore 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 DWT|250,000|metric|first=yes. The MV|Capt. Steven L. Bennett|T-AK-4296 and MV|Maj Bernard F Fisher are the two largest at DWT|41,812|metric and DWT|34,100|metric respectively. The company operates two small ships under DWT|10,000: the MV|Ascension and the MV|Sagamore.

The company previously owned and operated the oil tanker MT "Montauk" which carried jet fuel and other petroleum products between South Korea and Japan under a charter from Military Sealift Command.cite web |url=http://www.amo-union.org/Newspaper/Morgue/2-2001/Sections/News/montauk.htm |title=Sealift Inc. Tanker Added To AMO Fleet |accessdate=2008-05-04 |author=American Maritime Officers |authorlink=American Maritime Officers |coauthors= |date= |year=1999 |month= |format= |work=American Maritime Officer |publisher=American Maritime Officers |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] but sold the ship to the Cypriot company Kalia Maritime Co. Ltd. on February 1, 2007.ABS name|9941794|MT Montauk|2007-10-10]

Notes

References

*cite web |url=http://www.sealiftinc.org |title=Home Page |accessdate=2008-05-04 |author=Sealift Inc. |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year=2008 |month= |work= |publisher=Sealift Incorporated |pages= |archiveurl= |archivedate=
*cite web |url=http://www.sealiftinc.org/vessels.htm |title=U.S. Flag Vessels |accessdate=2008-05-04 |author=Sealift Inc. |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year=2008 |month= |work= |publisher=Sealift Incorporated |pages= |archiveurl= |archivedate=
*cite web |url=http://www.usaspending.gov/fpds/fpds.php?parent_id=209525&sortby=u&detail=-1&datype=T&reptype=r&database=fpds&fiscal_year=&submit=GO |title=Contracts to SEALIFT HOLDINGS INC (FY 2000-2008) |accessdate=2008-05-04 |author=USAspending.gov |authorlink=USAspending.gov |coauthors= |date=2008-01-15 |year= |month= |work= |publisher=United States of America |pages= |archiveurl= |archivedate=

External links

* [https://exchange.dnv.com/exchange/main.aspx?extool=company&companyid=199258 Company Profile at Det Norske Veritas]
* [http://absapps.eagle.org/safenet/record/record_vesselsearch?REG_OWNER_NAME=Sealift Ships owned record at American Bureau of Shipping]
* [http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=Raggio&fname=John&older=yes&search=Search John Raggio's Political Donations]
* [http://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/contract_detail.asp?contract_id=2992 Current MV "Virginian "contract]
* [http://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/contract_detail.asp?contract_id=4507 HSV "Swift" contract]
* [http://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/contract_detail.asp?contract_id=1066 Containership contract ]
* [http://www.amo-union.org/newspaper/morgue/9-2007/Sections/News/bennett.htm MV "Bennett" charter renewal ]
* [http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/bennet.htm MV "Bennett" at fas.org ]
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military//systems/ship/tak-9301.htm MV "Merlin" renamed to MV "Chapman"]
* [http://www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ships.asp?ship=majbernardffisher&type=ContainerShip MV "Fisher" at MSC]
* [http://www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ships.asp?ship=captstevenlbennett&type=ContainerShip MV "Bennett" at MSC ]


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