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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
3,972
Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
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, including two steamships and three small ships under 10,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT).
Sealift Inc has collective bargaining agreements with the Seafarer's International Union and the American Maritime Officers union.
Corporate profile
Fleet on record
Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Sealift Incorporated. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 1 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8912857 | Container ship | United States | 1993 | 3,972 | 4,152 | 97.8 m | Sedef Gemi Insaati AS |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Sealift Incorporated is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Sealift Incorporated ranks 55th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.
Founded in 1975, Sealift Incorporated is 51 years old. This directory holds 106 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 2 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q16984451, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Sealift Incorporated on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.