Heavy-lift player Dockwise has been contracted by the US navy to move the damaged warship USS Fitzgerald back to the US following a smash off Japan.
The shipowner, in partnership with Patriot Shipping, won a deal from Military Sealift Command for the destroyer that was in collision with an NYK boxship in June.
It will be loaded onto the 34,000-dwt semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Transshelf (built 1987) off the coast of Yokosuka, for transport to Pascagoula in the Gulf of Mexico.
The voyage will take place in the fourth quarter of 2017.
The accident killed seven US sailors.
The work is part of $50m of deals announced by Dockwise parent, Dutch owner Royal Boskalis Westminster.
Dockwise has also been was awarded a deal by Husky Oil Operations to take the West White Rose topside from Texas to Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada.
This includes the engineering, preparation and execution of the loading, transport and discharge operation.
The topside will be skidded onto a large barge, which in turn will be floated on to a semi-submersible heavy transport vessel. But not until 2021.
In addition, Dockwise won a contract from Lamprell Energy for the transport of 36 jackets from a yard in Jebel Ali to Vlissingen in the Netherlands.
The jackets will serve as foundations for the East Anglia offshore wind farm development. Two semi-submersible heavy transport vessels will be deployed for this contract.
And Dockwise was engaged by Heerema Marine Contractors to carry a semi-submersible crane vessel called Hermod from Rotterdam to Zhoushan, China.
It will be scrapped at Zhoushan Changhong International Ship Recycling yard.
