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The board of Taiwanese delivery line Evergreen has actually accepted orders for 10 23,000 megaships at 3 shipyards in South Korea and alsoChina

The business validated the orders in a collection of supply filings today. The building and construction agreements will certainly be broken up amongst 3 shipyards, consisting of South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries, which will certainly construct 6 of the ships, and also Jiangnan Shipyard and also Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding of China, which will certainly construct 2 vessels each.

Evergreen stated the orders have a complete worth of US$ 1.4 billion to $1.6 billion, or roughly $140 million to $160 million per vessel.

With the orders, Evergreen is ditching its formerly revealed strategy to charter as much as eleven newbuild vessels of 23,000 TEU capability.