
Technical Specifications
Overview
MV Damia Desgagnés is an asphalt-bitumen-chemical tanker owned and operated by Groupe Desgagnés for service on the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The ship was completed in March 2017. Damia Desgagnés is the first Canadian-flagged tanker to have a duel-fuel-powered propulsion system. The first of four ships of such a design, Damia Desgagnés ran aground on its first trip through the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
Live Tracking
Most time stopped at Port of Montreal — 9 d across 9 stays.
Derived from the AIS track — runs of near-zero speed (anchored, moored or drifting) snapped to the nearest port. Builds up as we observe the vessel.
Intelligence
How a hull like this loses value with age (today's market). The dot marks this ship at 9 yrs.
Estimate from $/dwt of similar-size, similar-age ships sold in the last 24 months. Indicative, not a certified valuation.
Open the full multi-model valuationThis ship has no verified emissions report. We estimate a band E from its segment, size and age (95% confidence).
Estimate, not a reported figure. Within one band 95% of the time on reported peers.
AIS-derived from our live feed.
Compliance
On 16 October 2023, the tanker "DAMIA DESGAGNES", while under the conduct of a pilot, reported having experienced a close quarters situation with the pleasure craft "EXUMA" in the St. Lawrence River off Port de Montréal, QC.
On 19 November 2022, the tanker "DAMIA DESGAGNES", while under the conduct of a pilot, reported a main engine problem in the St. Lawrence River off Trois-Rivières, QC. The vessel conducted repairs at anchor and resumed its voyage.
On 23 October 2021, the product tanker "DAMIA DESGAGNES", while departing under the conduct of a pilot, reported being disabled with engine problems at section 109 of the Port of Montréal in Montréal, QC. The crew carried out repairs which permitted the vessel to resume its voyage.
On 31 July 2019, the asphalt/bitumen tanker "DAMIA DESGAGNES" sustained a main engine failure and dropped both anchors in the St. Lawrence River 2 nautical miles SSE of Lanoraie, QC. The crew carried out the repairs and the vessel resumed its voyage.
On 29 January 2018, the crude oil tanker "DAMIA DESGAGNES" sustained a main engine shutdown due to a faulty speed sensor on the St. Lawrence River, off Sorel, Qc. The crew rectified the problem and the vessel resumed its voyage.
On 10 November 2017, the crude oil tanker "DAMIA DESGAGNES" reported a main engine exhaust leak , off Mont-Louis, QC. The engine load was reduced and the corresponding cylinder cut off. The vessel headed to Sept-Iles anchorage to await spare parts and repairs.
On 08 November 2017, the crude oil vessel "DAMIA DESGAGNES" reported an engine failure on the St-Lawrence River in Montreal Harbour, QC. The vessel proceeded to Pointe -Aux-Tremble anchorage for repairs. The crew rectified the problem and the vessel resumed its voyage.
On 16 June 2017 at 03:05 UTC, the LNG tanker "DAMIA DESGAGNES", with 20 people on board, grounded in the St. Lawrence Seaway near Morrisburg, ON after unexpectedly losing main engine propulsion. The vessel was refloated on 17 June and towed to Johnstown, ON. There were no injuries and no pollution reported.
Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.
Operational Status
Stopped, anchored or moored on its latest broadcast — parked, not necessarily withdrawn.
Read from the single most-recent AIS broadcast we hold for this hull — we keep no position history, so this is a point-in-time posture, not a dwell inference. Derived in-house from our own AIS feed; weight it by the broadcast age above.
Arrivals, time in port and the load/discharge inferred from the draught change — detected from AIS track history. An open call means the vessel is still in port (no departure observed yet).
Method: each call is a run of fixes inside a port’s geofence confirmed by a stop (or an AIS gap); load/discharge is the sign of the draught delta over the call. Indicative — arrivals before our AIS history began read from the first observation.
Time-in-port summed by port from the AIS-detected port-call history — the ports this vessel has spent the most time at, longest first.
Based on 12 completed calls observed since — open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.
Composite Risk
Some elevated factors — typically age or a lower-graded flag — but no acute ship-specific flag.
A coverage-weighted blend of the 2 components we could read for this hull — the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.
Estimated
Tanker · summer draught 8 m · 24.2 t per cm immersion
Estimate only — modelled from deadweight (hull geometry) using a first-principles hydrostatic model, not measured hydrostatic tables. The design draught it is anchored to is unreliable across the fleet.
density DWT/GT=1.23 is consistent with declared tanker
Declared type is consistent with the class implied by the vessel’s size signals. Inferred via our shared size-based classifier.
Commercial
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