Maersk Line Orders Seven New Ships

Maersk Line introduced at this time an order for seven new 3,600 TEU containerships from COSCO Shipyard in Zhoushan China as a part of a 5 yr, USD $15 billion newbuild and retrofit plan for his or her firm’s huge world fleet.

This is the primary order for containerships that COSCO’s Zhoushan’s yard has ever obtained. The ships will measure 200 meters in size with a beam of 35.2 meters and 10 meter draft.

“I am very happy to announce this new order and the first in our investment programme. Our strategy is to grow with the market and to do so we need new vessels from 2017,” says Søren Toft, COO in Maersk Line. “We expect to place additional orders during 2015.”

Maersk Line says this order was positioned for his or her Seago Line, its fully-owned container delivery line devoted to short-sea providers in Europe and all through the Mediterranean area.

The vessels, constructed to commerce in Northern Europe via sea ice, will present Seago Line short-sea and feeder clients with aggressive providers, additionally within the winter, the corporate says. The ships can be fueled by marine fuel oil (MGO) to adjust to IMO SOx emissions necessities within the Northern Europe emissions management space.

The vessels can be delivered in April – November 2017 and contains an possibility for 2 further vessels to be declared inside eight months.