American roll-on roll-off carrier

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American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier LLC , ARC for short , is a US shipping company that operates with RoRo ships for the United States Department of Defense, among others .

history

The company was founded in 1990 and, like the shipping companies Eukor , UECC and WWL , belongs to the globally active Wallenius Wilhelmsen Group . The company is based in Baltimore , Maryland and the European office is in Bremerhaven .

ARC operates a fleet of RoRo ships with a system of fixed and height-adjustable decks. This system makes it possible to quickly adapt the ships to different loads and to maximize the load capacity.

The freighters Resolve , Endurance and Freedom brought several thousand vehicles for Operation Atlantic Resolve to Bremerhaven in January 2017 .

fleet

Surname Shipyard /
construction number 		IMO number delivery Remarks image
Integrity (ex Otello ) Hitachi, Maizuru / 4852 8919934 September 1992 Car carrier Integrity.jpg
Independence II (ex Titus ) Daewoo Heavy Industries, Okpo / 4411 9070448 November 1, 1994 Car carrier Independence II 2010-05-29 1.jpg
Resolve (ex Tanabata , ex NOSAC Tanabata ) Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering Company, Oppama / 1198 9080297 November 1994 Car carrier Resolve (IMO 9080297) entering Port of Bizerte - Tunisia - 29 Jan. 2013.jpg
Endurance (ex Taronga ) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki / 2109 9121273 December 16, 1996 Endurance, Fremantle, 2015 (12) .JPG
Honor (ex Takasago ) Sumitomo Heavy Industries & Marine Engineering Company, Oppama / 1214 9126297 December 17, 1996 Zeebrugge Belgium Tugboat-Smit-Tiger-and -car-carrier-Honor-01.jpg
Freedom (ex Takamine ) Sumitomo Heavy Industries & Marine Engineering Company, Oppama / 1215 9129706 March 18, 1997
Liberty (ex Topeka ) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki / 2213 9310109 June 30, 2006 Car carrier Topeka 2010-05-13 1.jpg
Patriot (ex Aida ) Daewoo Heavy Industries, Okpo / 4442 9316139 May 26, 2006 Car transporter Patriot.jpg


Courage (ex Aida ) Hitachi Shipbuilding, Maizuru 8919922 1991 The ship Aida was renamed Courage in September 2005 . It suffered a serious fire in 2015 and was later demolished in Aliaga in 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Company Overview of American Roll-On Roll-Off Carriers LLC. , Bloomberg. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  2. ^ A b Christian Eckardt: No happy end for RoRo ship "Courage" , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , February 15, 2016 ( online, with login ).
  3. ↑ Our operating companies , Wilh. Wilhelmsen. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  4. ^ First ship with US tanks and equipment in Bremerhaven , WeltN24, January 4, 2017.
  5. ^ ARC Discharges Army Unit from Three Vessels for Operation Atlantic Resolve , American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier, January 13, 2017.
  6. ↑ http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=363454
  7. ↑ http://warshipsresearch.blogspot.com/2014/06/american-car-carrier-ex-takamine-1997.html
  8. ↑ http://warshipsresearch.blogspot.com/2014/08/american-car-carrier-ex-aida-1991-2005.html
  9. ^ John Konrad: M / V Courage Arrives In Southampton, 100 Charred Vehicles Expected , gCaptain, June 4, 2015.