Fednav is a privately owned

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company in the

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industry, involved in transporting over 30 million tonnes of

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and

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worldwide. Its fleet comprises approximately 120 long-term and spot-chartered vessels. The fleet includes most of St. Lawrence Seaway's maximum-sized bulk carriers, Supramax, and

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vessels.

Business units and subsidiaries

The core companies include Fednav Limited, Fednav International Ltd., Fednav Atlantic Lakes Line (FALLine), and Arctic Operations, Projects, and Ice Services. The company has offices in

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and

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. In 2023, Fednav sold both Federal Marine Terminals, Inc. (FMT), which provided stevedoring services, and Fednav Direct, which handled logistics such as warehousing and ground transportation, to focus on pure-play shipping. Fednav has operated in the Canadian Arctic through its icebreakers. Fednav ships operate in Arctic waters year-round, servicing Northern mines of

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, and

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, among other things. Many of the ships in the Fednav fleet are strengthened for navigation on ice. Most of its vessels are classified with the Ice Class 1C* notation by DNV, allowing them to work in the

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with the assistance of icebreakers. Three vessels in the Fednav fleet, the 2006-built '' Umiak I'', 2014-built '' MV Nunavik'' and 2021-built ''Arvik I'', are fitted with icebreaker bows and have enough ice-strengthening and installed power to operate independently in Arctic ice conditions. Fednav's Arctic fleet is also equipped with an in-house developed shipboard navigation system designed for vessels operating in ice-covered waters worldwide. This tool allows operators to view and monitor sea ice using RADARSAT-2 technology. Fednav vessels operating in the Arctic must have specially trained ice advisors on board, who inform the ship's master on issues such as minimizing ice accretion.

Fleet

As of 2023, Fednav owns a fleet of 61 ships. All of the ships lie in the range of 32,500 DWT to 56,000 DWT. Two ships are registered in Canada, two in Panama, and the rest in the Marshall Islands. The rest of Fednav's fleet consists of 40 to 60 short- and long-term charters depending on the time of year. The current 33 long-term chartered ships were built between 2010 and 2023. Twenty-three are between 55,000 DWT to 63,600 DWT and the rest fall in the range of 37,300 DWT to 42,700 DWT. One of these ships is registered in Malta, one in Singapore, two in Liberia and the balance are registered in the Marshall Islands or Panama. The total DWT of the owned and long-term chartered fleet is over 4,100,000 mt, with an average age of about 8 years.

Gallery

File:Federal Margaree (2005).jpg, ''Federal Margaree'' on the St. Lawrence Seaway File:Freighter approaches Redpath, near dusk, 2016 04 09 (4) (26440745876).jpg, File:Federal Champlain (2020).jpg, ''Federal Champlain'' in the port of

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References

External links

*{{official website
Company Profile at Det Norske Veritas
Dry bulk shipping companies Shipping companies of Canada Companies based in Montreal Transport companies established in 1944 Canadian companies established in 1944