MV Transpacific (2006 - 2012), also known as Bonito (2002 - 2006), also known as Turcas II (2001 - 2002), also known as Nikolay Shalavin (2001)[1] is an oil tanker under long-term charter to the United States Military Sealift Command (MSC).

[3] As part of MSC's Sealift Program, the Transpacific transports fuel for the U.S. Department of Defense.

[3] Small and having shallow-draft, the Transpacific is known as a T-1 equivalent tanker, and moves petroleum products intra-theater in between Japan, Korea and The Marshall Islands.

[12] Sealift Incorporated protested the charter award with the Government Accounting Office (GAO), claiming that TransAtlantic Lines understated its fuel-consumption costs.

[13] The GAO denied this protest, as well as an additional technical complaint about what business entity actually employed crewmembers.