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Sea Swift is a regional sea freight company, operating from
Cairns, QueenslandCairns is a regional city in Far North Queensland, Australia. The city itself was named after William Wellington Cairns . It was formed to serve miners heading for the Hodgkinson River goldfield, but experienced a decline when an easier route was discovered from Port Douglas...
to Thursday Island. The company ships dry and frozen cargo to 12 different islands. This includes a vital supplies of food to remote islands
Services
Along with general cargo transport and passenger services, Sea Swift also provide mothershipping services. Commercial fishing vessels on the coast of
Far North QueenslandFar North Queensland, or FNQ, is the northernmost part of the Australian state of Queensland. The region, which contains a large section of the Tropical North Queensland area, stretches from the city of Cairns north to the Torres Strait....
and in the
Gulf of CarpentariaThe Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea...
, use Sea Swift for stores receival, crew exchange, and product transfer.
In July 2005, Endeavour Shipping added Thursday Island to its weekly service between Cairns and Bamaga. This broke Sea Swift's monopoly on the shipping trade between Cairns and Thursday Island, and caused some shipping rates to drop by almost half.
Awards
Sea Swift was nominated to receive a
Quarantine Certificate of Commendation in 2005, but it was ultimately won by Ergon Energy.
Merchant vesselA merchant vessel is a ship that transports cargo and passengers during peace time. During wars, the same ships are auxiliaries to the navies of their respective countries, and are called upon to deliver military personnel and materiel....
s
- MV Trinity Bay
The MV Trinity Bay is a , 80 metre long, Coastal Freighter owned by the Seaswift shipping company based in Cairns, Australia. It runs a weekly service supplying communities on the Cape York Peninsula and in Torres Strait...
- General Cargo
- MV Newcastle Bay - General Cargo
- MV Kestrel Bay - Fishing vessel mothership
- MV Emu Bay - Fishing vessel mothership
Landing CraftLanding craft are boats and seagoing vehicles used to convey a landing force from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault. Most renowned are those used to storm the beaches of Normandy, the Mediterranean, and many Pacific islands during WWII...
- Malu Titan
- Malu Warrior
- Malu Chief
- Malu Trojan
- Malu Raider
- Wadjemup
- Temple Bay
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