Groupe Desgagnés is a Canadian shipping firm. It operates a fleet of nineteen vessels. Gross earnings in 2014 were around $230 million.

Desgagnes Transarctik

Desgagnes Transarctik, a subsidiary of Groupe Desgagnés, is partners with Arctic Co-operatives Limited, the Qikiqtaaluk Corporation, Sakku Investments Corporation and the Kitikmeot Corporation. Operating as Nunavut Sealink and Supply Incorporated they provide annual

sealift Sealift is a term used predominantly in military logistics and refers to the use of cargo ships for the deployment of military assets, such as weaponry, vehicles, military personnel, and supplies. It complements other means of transport, such a ...

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communities.

Fleet

All vessels fly the Canadian flag and are operated by Canadian crews, except a few vessels when used for international trade. was part of the fleet until her sale in 2007.

Tankers

* , , ''Paul A. Desgagnés'' and ''Rossi A. Desgagnés'': tankers with dual-fuel

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5RT-flex 60DF propulsion engines allowing the use of

liquefied natural gas Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the v ...

(LNG),

marine diesel oil Marine Diesel Oil (MDO) is a type of fuel oil and is a blend of gasoil and heavy fuel oil, with more gasoil than intermediate fuel oil used in the maritime field. Marine Diesel Oil is also called "Distillate Marine Diesel". MDO is widely used by med ...

(MDO) or

heavy fuel oil Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) is a category of fuel oils of a tar-like consistency. Also known as bunker fuel, or residual fuel oil, HFO is the result or remnant from the distillation and cracking process of petroleum. For this reason, HFO is contaminate ...

(HFO), built in Turkey in 2016. They have

ice class Ice class refers to a notation assigned by a classification society or a national authority to denote the additional level of strengthening as well as other arrangements that enable a ship to navigate through sea ice. Some ice classes also have r ...

Polar 7. * :

chemical tanker A chemical tanker is a type of tanker ship designed to transport chemicals in bulk. As defined in MARPOL Annex II, chemical tanker means a ship constructed or adapted for carrying in bulk any liquid product listed in chapter 17 of the Internat ...

* ''Espada Desgagnés'' and ''Laurentia Desgagnés'':

Panamax Panamax and New Panamax (or Neopanamax) are terms for the size limits for ships travelling through the Panama Canal. The limits and requirements are published by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) in a publication titled "Vessel Requirements". ...

tanker vessels for the transportation of crude oil. * ''Esta Desgagnés'': chemical tanker * ''Gaïa Desgagnés'': chemical product carrier * ''Jana Desgagnés'' * ''Laurentia Desgagnés'': a Panamax tanker vessel dedicated to the transportation of crude oil * ''Maria Desgagnés'': a

double-hulled tanker A double-hulled tanker refers to an oil tanker which has a double hull. They reduce the likelihood of leaks occurring compared to single-hulled tankers, and their ability to prevent or reduce oil spills led to double hulls being standardized for oi ...

for transporting chemicals * ''Sarah Desgagnés'': double-hulled oil and chemical tanker built in Tuzla, Turkey in 2007. * : double-hulled oil and asphalt tanker, no longer in use, replaced by ''Damia Desgagnés'' and ''Mia Desgagnés''.

Cargo carriers

* : multi-purpose dry cargo ship * : general cargo carrier rated

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100 1A for navigation through ice. (No longer active since 2017) * : multi-purpose

roll-on/roll-off Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, Trailer (vehicle), trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their o ...

vessel equipped with a crane capable of lifting up to 125 tons (Sold and scrapped in 2017) * : general cargo ship, heavy cargo * roll-on/roll-off cargo carrier (Sold in December 2017 and bound for further service in Russia) * : heavy lift multi-purpose dry cargo vessel with

tweendeck Tweendeckers are general cargo ships with two or sometimes three decks. The upper deck is called the ''main deck'' or ''weather deck'', and the next lower deck is the ''tweendeck''. Cargo such as bales, bags, or drums can be stacked in the ''twee ...

* * * : multi-purpose heavy lift ship * : multi-purpose dry cargo ship * : multi-purpose dry cargo ship, equipped for carriage of containers, strengthened for heavy cargo * : multi-purpose tweendeck, lo-lo cargo ship * : multi-purpose dry cargo ship * * :

sister ship A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship. Such vessels share a nearly identical hull and superstructure layout, similar size, and roughly comparable features and equipment. They often share a ...

of ''Sedna Desgagnés'', multi-purpose dry cargo ship, equipped for carriage of containers, strengthened for heavy cargo

Cargo and passenger carrier

* ''Bella Desgagnés'': From mid-April to mid-January, ''Bella Desgagnés'' serves the Lower North shore of the

Côte-Nord Côte-Nord (, ; ; land area ) is the second-largest administrative region by land area in Quebec, Canada, after Nord-du-Québec. It covers much of the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River estuary and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence past Tadous ...

region of Quebec transporting passengers and cargo. The trip from

Rimouski Rimouski ( ) is a city in Quebec, Canada. Rimouski is located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, at the mouth of the Rimouski River. It has a population of 48,935 (as of 2021). Rimouski is the site of Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), t ...

Blanc-Sablon Blanc-Sablon is the easternmost community in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, in the administrative région of Côte-Nord, in the province of Quebec, Canada. With a population of 1,122 inhabitants in 2021, it is the most p ...

is a one-week round trip, calling (in the downstream direction) at Sept-Îles, Port-Menier on

Anticosti Island ; moe, Notiskuan; mic, Natigostec , sobriquet = , image_name = RiviereHuileAnticosti.jpg , image_caption = Salmon fisherman on Rivière à l'Huile , image_map ...

Havre-Saint-Pierre Havre-Saint-Pierre is a town on Pointe-aux-Esquimaux, which is on the Quebec north shore (Côte-Nord) of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada. Located along Route 138 some east of Sept-Îles, it is the largest town and seat of the Minganie RCM, ...

, Natashquan, Kegaska, La Romaine,

Harrington Harbour Harrington Harbour is an unconstituted locality within the municipality of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. History Harrington Harbour was founded near the end of the 19th century by fishermen f ...

, Tête-à-la-Baleine, La Tabatière and Saint-Augustin.The voyage downstream starts Tuesday morning from Rimouski and arrives in Blanc Sablon Friday morning. The ship then returns upstream. * ''Nordik Express''.

References

External links

Map
showing the real time position of the vessels in the fleet {{DEFAULTSORT:Groupe Desgagne * Shipping companies of Canada Companies based in Quebec City