Japanese Shipbuilder Secures Orders for Record 20,000 TEU Containerships

Japanese shipbuilder Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. says it has secured newbuilding orders for 11 containerships with a TEU capability of 20,000, marking the first-ever orders for ships that measurement.

Imabari stated that it secured the order with the cooperation of Marubeni Corporation, though it didn’t specify which service positioned the order, solely revealing that it was an abroad shipowner.

The order marks the primary order for containerships of 20,000 TEUs. Currently, the biggest containership by carrying capability is the 19,224 TEU MSC Oscar (the primary of two ships in the identical sequence), adopted carefully by the 19,100 TEU CSCL Globe (the primary in a five-vessel sequence).

The Ultra-Large Container Carriers will measure 400 meters in size with about 59 meters breadth, Imabari stated. The first vessel is scheduled to be accomplished in early 2018.

In order to construct the ships, Imabari says it has determined to assemble a big newbuilding dry dock measuring about 600m size by 80m breadth on about 100,000? of reclaimed land positioned subsequent to their Marugame City Headquarters.

Over the years, Imabari has constructed over 200 containerships, together with 4,800 TEU Post-Panamax vessels in 1995, the biggest on this planet at the moment, and eight,100 TEU vessels in 2008. Currently, Imbari is constructing a 14,000 TEU ship, the biggest ever constructed within the Japan, that’s scheduled to be accomplished in March.

In separate however associated information, a story Friday by The Wall Street stated that Maersk Line, the world’s greatest container-shipping firm by capability, is at the moment in early talks with Asian shipbuilders to order as much as 10 20,000 TEU ships price round $1.5 billion. The order is predicted to be full within the first quarter, the report stated. The twenty Maersk Triple-E ships, with a capability of over 18,000 TEU, had been all ordered from DSME in South Korea.