Tropical Shipping christens shallow-draft ship.

Tropical Shipping recently celebrated the christening of its newest ship, the Tropic Dawn, at the Port of Palm Beach. Built in Indonesia in 2006, the 236-foot, shallow-draft ship can better service shallow ports in the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands and the Caribbean. G&G Shipping previously dominated this market because of its shallow-draft fleet.

"Our new vessel gives us the flexibility to deliver a large amount of both containerized and roll-on, roll-off cargo to some smaller, …