Sea Swift

Sea Swift’s MV Trinity Bay steaming towards the Torres Strait out of Cairns' Trinity Inlet.

Sea Swift is Australia’s largest privately owned shipping company. It operates in Northern Australia, mainly servicing remote and regional communities in Far North Queensland and the Northern Territory. The company provides freight and passenger services, and maritime logistical support, operating four merchant vessels in addition to barges, tugs and landing craft. It has won a number of business awards, and participates in Corporate Social Responsibility activities in the communities served.

History

Sea Swift started in 1987 when founder Sid Faithfull identified an opportunity to service Gulf Of Carpentaria fishing fleets by mothershipping from Karumba. Over the next 25 years, Sea Swift grew to become Australia’s largest privately owned shipping company, operating regular freight, mothershipping, project logistics and passenger cruise services from its Cairns headquarters to communities throughout Far North Queensland. Expanding to 20 vessels and five depots, today Sea Swift continues to service remote communities along Cape York Peninsula and in the Gulf of Carpentaria, as well as the Torres Strait Islands, including Horn Island, Thursday Island and the outer islands.

In early 2013, through the acquisition of Tiwi Barge,[1] Sea Swift commenced an operation in the Northern Territory. The initial two-vessel and 15-person operation servicing four destinations grew in 2015 to become an 11-vessel, 110-person operation servicing 17 destinations across the Territory.

Services

Sea Swift has four main service streams:

Sea Swift's Project Logistics unit has seen jobs completed domestically to destinations including Brisbane, Townsville, Gladstone, Bundaberg, Torres Strait Islands, Mornington Island, Lizard Island, Palm Island, Darwin, Gove, Tiwi Islands, Arnhem Land, and many others - as far south as Newcastle and as far west as Western Australia coastal mine sites. Internationally, jobs have been completed to Papua New Guinea, South East Asia and the South Pacific. Clients serviced include BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto Alcan, Mt Gibson Iron, Sedgman, Bechtel, Santos, Queensland Government, Northern Territory Government and many others.

Employee and community relations

Sea Swift has more than 350 staff, with an Indigenous workforce participation rate of 18 per cent. An internally developed award-winning cadetship program develops people ready to progress in the maritime industry.[3]

Sea Swift operates a Corporate Social Responsibility program in regional and remote communities in northern Australia. Sea Swift supports Northern Pride RLFC’s national award-winning Take Pride Program, which uses the vehicle of sport to deliver positive outcomes in Education, Employment, Health & Wellbeing and Sporting Pathways to members of these communities.

Sea Swift is also naming rights sponsor of Northern Pride RLFC, and a major sponsor of the Cairns Taipans basketball team, which plays in the National Basketball League (NBL).

Awards

Sea Swift has won a number of awards over recent years:

Ships

The following vessels are currently within Sea Swift's fleet.[5]

Merchant vessels

Landing craft

Tugs

Barges

References

  1. ↑ "TN 13-04-29 by Regional and Remote Newspapers". ISSUU. 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  2. ↑ "Cruises « Sea Swift – Cairns, Queensland Shipping and Sea Freight". Seaswift.com.au. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  3. ↑ Vlasic, Kimberley (2015-02-18). "Indigenous youth find their sea legs with Cairns distribution company and 2014 Queensland Reconciliation Awards finalist, Sea Swift". Cairns Post. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  4. ↑ Archived April 20, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "Our Fleet « Sea Swift – Cairns, Queensland Shipping and Sea Freight". Seaswift.com.au. Retrieved 2015-08-10.

Coordinates: 16°56′48″S 145°46′13″E / 16.94667°S 145.77028°E / -16.94667; 145.77028

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