The ship, a semi-submersible heavy-lift ship at the time, was christened sometime in 1981 with the name Dan Lifter and was sent into service with Frigg Shipping Ltd. in 1982. A year later, it recovered RFA Sir Tristram after the Falklands War. In 1985, it went to Wijsmuller Transport with the name Super Servant 5 to move oil platforms. It stayed in Wijsmuller for 10 years, before being passed over to Gulf South Shipping, who passed the recently renamed Bali Sea to CG Railway. It operated as a rail ferry between Coatzacoalcos in Mexico and Mobile, Alabama, on a 900miles route, carrying a maximum of 115 rail cars.[2] In 2019, the Bali Sea was showing its age. As a result, new ferries were ordered from China, both of which arrived in 2021. With the arrival of the first, MV Cherokee, The Bali Sea was renamed Bala, sailed to Nhava Sheva, and decommissioned.[3]