RENDA

Product tanker RENDA is seen in the Port of Adak in January 2009. Flagged in the Russian Federation with a homeport of Vladivostok, the RENDA was built by the Rauma-Repola Oy Shipyard in Savonlinna, Finland in 1984. The ship has an overall length of 370 feet, a beam of 60 feet and she draws 23.6 feet of water when loaded to her 6269 dead weight ton capacity. The ship is powered by a single six cylinder Burmeister and Wain marine diesel model 6L4GFCA which provides 5900 horsepower to her single shaft allowing the ship to make 15 knots. RENDA calls in Adak and Dutch Harbor occasionally with product  for Adak Fuel and Delta Western. In January 2012 RENDA received a waiver of the Jones Act to carry a load of gasoline from Dutch Harbor to Nome, The final fuel delivery of the year to Nome was thwarted by a late fall storm in November 2011. After considering alternatives including flying fuel in to the city on Norton Sound, the RENDA was selected to make the fuel delivery. She picked up diesel fuel and heating oil in Korea, but when she tried to load gasoline in Japan she was unable to be loaded at the terminal due to a storm. The ship sailed from Japan to Dutch Harbor while a Jones Act Waiver was arranged by her charterers with the support of Alaska's congressional delegation. The ship loaded gasoline in Dutch Harbor and was taken under escort to Nome by the Coast Guard icebreaker HEALY. This was the first time fuel was ever attempted to be delivered to an Alaskan city that far north (Latitude 64 degrees 30 minutes North) in the dead of winter.

See more on the HEALY and RENDA voyage to Nome here.