FEDERAL RIDEAU Sold

For a few years it has been rumoured that the first of FedNav's Oshima-built bulk carriers would soon be sold off as they are approaching 25 years old. While their ships are always kept in good condition with all of them seeing regular drydocking and painting, their recent ship building programme in Japan has and continues to deliver new ships. These will now begin displacing the earliest of the Oshima-built ships, the first of which is FEDERAL RIDEAU.

Following the construction of 6 sisterships in Jiangnan, China during the mid-1990s (FEDERAL ST. LAURENT, FEDERAL CALUMET (ORSULA), FEDERAL SAGUENAY, FEDERAL RHINE, FEDERAL MAAS & FEDERAL SCHELDE) FedNav went to Oshima Shipbuilding in Japan for what would become the first of their new class of Great Lakes fitted bulk carriers.

Led by FEDERAL OSHIMA the Oshima-class grew quickly and she was followed by FEDERAL ASAHI, FEDERAL RIDEAU, FEDERAL YUKON, FEDERAL HUDSON, FEDERAL WELLAND, FEDERAL KIVALINA and FEDERAL HUNTER. In April of 2024 it was reported that FEDERAL RIDEAU had been sold to Kiba Logistics Ltd., renamed KIBA and placed into new service under the management of Costalina Ship Management FZC of the UAE. In recent months she has called in Preveza and Thessaloniki, Greece, Larnaca, Cyprus, Midia, Romania, Novorossisyk, Russia and as of 26 September 2024 she was enroute from Istanbul, Turkey for Luanda, Angola.

As it has been with all former FedNav ships, she will likely never again visit the Great Lakes..