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Cetacean Marine performs project work for the Philly Shipyard and the NASSCO Shipbuilding Corp.

Cetacean Marine was selected by Philly Shipyard  and NASSCO Shipbuilding Corp. to perform the builders sea and acceptance trials on the Matson “Aloha” Class of 3,600 TEU container ships. These are the largest container vessels ever built in a US shipyard. The successful trials of second vessel, the M/V Kaimana Hila, were completed in March of 2019. This was the 30th ship built by Philly Shipyard and the 12th ship trialed by Cetacean Marine Services Inc.   

Cetacean Marine has been selected to provide the sea trial services for the 5 new MARAD training vessels.  The T/S Patriot State (ship # 34) was trialed in July 2024 and the T/S State of Maine (Ship # 35) in June 2025, with two more to follow.

Cetacean has performed 15 sea trials for NASSCO from 2020-2025 on commercial (Matson) and USN/USNS vessels. 

What’s a cetacean? 

Ce.ta.cean (si ta’shen) n. [L. cetus], large sea animal; any of an order (Cetacea) of; nearly hairless, fishlike water mammals, lacking external hind limbs, but having paddle-like forelimbs. Whales, porpoises and manatees are cetaceans.