ROSAIRE A. DESGAGNES

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Cargo ship to be investigated after grounding incident in Nunavut

Investigators from the Transportation Safety Board arrived in St. John’s on Sep 12, 2025, to board and assess the 'Rosaire A. Desgagnés', which had ran aground in te Pelly Bay, Nunavut, on Aug 23, 2025,with 25 people on board. The ship was en route to a remote area with community resupply cargo. It was refloated at high tide and then anchored for a damage assessment before proceeding to St. John’s on its own.

Allision in Montreal

The USS "Billings" allided with the freighter "Rosaire A. Desgagnes" on June 21, 2019 in the port of Montreal while unmooring from Wharf 31 with assistance of two tugs. The freighter was berthed at Wharf 30 behind the Key West bound Navy ship which moved astern and contacted it. On June 23 the freighter was berthed at Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, while the Navy ship remained stationary.

Beluga ship to be arrested and sold to cover oil bills

A Singapore company wants to take possession of a ship in the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor, saying in a federal lawsuit that the ship’s owner skipped out on a more than $500,000 gas bill. According to the suit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court in Hammond, Beluga Chartering GmbH, a German company, ordered two shipments of oil for the ship M/V Rosaire A. Desgagnes earlier this year while it was docked in Singapore. The company put the ship up as collateral for the oil, which cost a total of $561,224, according to the suit. Beluga never paid, however, and now World Fuel Services, which sold the oil, wants to arrest the ship, selling it to cover the payment, according to the lawsuit.