Editing Diego Garcia (section)

==Cargo service==
[[File:Mv-baffin-strait-route.png|thumb|right|From 2004 to 2009, [[MV Baffin Strait (T-AK W9519)|MV ''Baffin Strait'']] transited between Singapore and Diego Garcia once a month.]]

All consumable food and equipment are brought to Diego Garcia by sea or air, and all non-biodegradable waste is shipped off the island as well. From 1971 to 1973, United States Navy LSTs provided this service. Beginning in 1973, civilian ships were contracted to provide these services. From 2004 to 2009, the US-flagged [[container ship]] [[MV Baffin Strait (T-AK W9519)|MV ''Baffin Strait'']], often referred to as the "DGAR shuttle", delivered 250 containers every month from Singapore to Diego Garcia.<ref name="dgar">{{cite web|url=http://www.msc.navy.mil/N00p/pressrel/press07/press51.htm |title=Change at the helm for MSC's Diego Garcia office |publisher=Msc.navy.mil |date=8 November 2007 |access-date=21 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806085739/http://www.msc.navy.mil/N00p/pressrel/press07/press51.htm |archive-date=6 August 2011 }}</ref> The ship delivered "more than 200,000 tons of cargo to the island each year".<ref name="dgar"/> On the return trip to Singapore, it carried recyclable metals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://deparc.xservices.com/pdfs/stories/Navy/FY06_SW_Success_Stories.pdf |title=2006 Pollution Prevention and Solid Waste Success Stories |access-date=18 March 2008 |author=Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) |year=2007 |publisher=US Department of the Navy}}{{dead link|date=April 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In 2004, [[TransAtlantic Lines LLC|TransAtlantic Lines]] outbid [[Sealift Incorporated]] for the transport contract between Singapore and Diego Garcia.<ref name="sag">{{cite web|url=http://www.amo-union.org/newspaper/Morgue/11-2004/Sections/News/sagamore.htm |title=Non-union operator wins charter held by Sagamore |access-date=26 September 2007 |author1=American Maritime Officers |date=November 2004 |work=AMO Currents |publisher=American Maritime Officers Union |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720230429/http://www.amo-union.org/Newspaper/Morgue/11-2004/Sections/news/sagamore.htm |archive-date=20 July 2006 }}</ref> The route had previously been serviced by Sealift Inc.'s ''MV Sagamore'', crewed by members of [[American Maritime Officers]] and [[Seafarers' International Union]].<ref name="sag"/> TransAtlantic Lines reportedly won the contract by approximately 10 per cent, representing a price difference of about $2.7 million.<ref name="sag"/> The ''Baffin Straits'' charter ran from 10 January 2005, to 30 September 2008, at a daily rate of $12,550.

US President [[Donald Trump]] announced a 10% [[Tariffs in the second Trump administration|tariff]] on the island on 2 April 2025.<ref>{{cite news |author= Ellie Cook |author2=John Feng |title=Trump tariffs on territory hosting major US military base spark confusion |url=https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-reciprocal-tariffs-chagos-islands-diego-garcia-us-military-base-2054767 |work=Newsweek |date=3 April 2025 |language=en}}</ref>