MV Cape Ray (T-AKR-9679)

The 648-foot Roll-on/roll-off and container ship MV Cape Ray (T-AKR-9679), built in 1977, was previously known as MV Saudi Makkah and MV Seaspeed Asia. She can carry 1,315 containers and has both bow and stern thrusters.

After being acquired in 29 April 1994, MV Cape Ray (T-AKR-9679) was in the Ready Reserve Force. She is generally used to transport vehicles to war zones from the United States.

Syrian weapons destruction
The ship has been outfitted by United States Army civilians with two Field Deployable Hydrolysis Systems designed to neutralize chemical weapons in Syria's arsenal.

The MV Cape Ray (T-AKR-9679) will participate in a United Nations mission to destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile. Approximately 60 Army civilians will be aboard the vessel when it receives an official order to support this joint mission under the command of Rick Jordan.

On 16 January 2014 the Italian Minister of Infrastructures and Transports, Maurizio Lupi, said that MV Cape Ray will load 530 tons of chemical weapons material in the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, Italy, from the Danish ship MV Ark Futura.