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 as ...

Canadian Arctic Northern Canada (), colloquially the North or the Territories, is the vast northernmost region of Canada, variously defined by geography and politics. Politically, the term refers to the three territories of Canada: Yukon, Northwest Territories a ...

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

Wärtsilä Wärtsilä Oyj Abp (), trading internationally as Wärtsilä Corporation, is a Finnish corporation, Finnish company which manufactures and services power sources and other equipment in the Marine propulsion, marine and energy markets. The core ...

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 to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volume o ...

(LNG), marine diesel oil (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 contains seve ...

(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 ...

Polar 7. * :

chemical tanker A chemical tanker is a type of tanker (ship), 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 o ...

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

Panamax Panamax and New Panamax (or Neopanamax) are terms for the size limits for ships traveling 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 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 Lloyd's 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 ...

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 * * * : multi-purpose heavy lift ship * : multi-purpose dry cargo 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 Ship class, 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 o ...

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

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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, whose motto is ''Legi patrum fidelis'' (Faithful to ...

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

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Havre-Saint-Pierre Havre-Saint-Pierre () is a municipality located on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Côte-Nord region, Minganie RCM, Quebec, Canada. History In 1857, a group of Acadian families arrived, in 1872, the Parish of Saint-Pierre-d ...

, Natashquan, Kegaska, La Romaine, Harrington Harbour, 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