Heavy-lift player Dockwise has been contracted by the US navy to move the damaged warship USS Fitzgerald back to the US following a smash off Japan.
The shipowner, in partnership with Patriot Shipping, won a deal from Military Sealift Command for the destroyer that was in collision with an NYK boxship in June.
It will be loaded onto the 34,000-dwt semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Transshelf (built 1987) off the coast of Yokosuka, for transport to Pascagoula in the Gulf of Mexico.
