US DoD Navy Charter of Product Tankship Extended

Amongst the latest listing of US Department of Defense, Navy, contracts, the existing time charter of a U.S.-flagged, ice-class certified, double-hulled product tanker of Maersk Line Ltd. of Norfolk Va.  is extended.

The $14,223,440 modification is under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00033-11-C-5400) has been extended.

The vessel provides worldwide bulk fuel support to the Department of Defense, including a delivery each year to Antarctica for the National Science Foundation and a delivery each year to Greenland for the Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency-Energy. 

Work will be performed worldwide, and is expected to be completed December 2014.  If all option periods are exercised, work will continue through November 2016.  Fiscal 2014 working capital contract funds in the amount of $11,495,657 are obligated on this award, and will not expire at the end of the fiscal year.  Military Sealift Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.