Samsung Heavy: OOCL Mega Ships Will Be a Record-Breaking 21,100 TEU

Some new particulars launched by Samsung Heavy Industries about OOCL’s latest order for ultra-large container ships reveals that the mega ships can be a record-breaking 21,100 TEU.

At 21,100 TEU capability, the vessel’s are the biggest ever ordered to this point and the primary to interrupt the 21,000 TEU mark because the world’s largest transport firms compete to develop their fleets.

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries says it inked the order from OOCL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas (International) Limited (OOIL), on April 1 for six items of 21,100 TEU for a complete value of US$950 million. The contract additionally consists of choices for six further items, so further orders are “likely,” SHI mentioned in a press release.

The contract from OOCL renews SHI’s maintain on the world’s largest containership order file, which it had beforehand set only one month earlier with an order for 4 ships of 20,150 TEU from MOL of Japan. To date, SHI has acquired agency orders for a complete of 10 items topping 20,000 TEU.

The six ship’s for OOCL will measure 400 meters lengthy by 58.8 meters extensive, the identical dimensions because the vessel’s ordered by MOL. The ships for OOCL nevertheless will be capable of load 1,000 extra twenty-foot equal items by accommodating a further layer of containers, SHI says. The ships will even be outfitted with numerous energy-saving programs, together with propellers, rudder bulbs and stators developed by Samsung Heavy Industries.

The ships can be delivered by November 2017.

“It is expected that orders for ultra-large container ships will continue, as global shipping alliances are competing to expand their fleets,” SHI mentioned in a press release saying the OOCL order. “We will receive additional orders by offering optimized ship solutions and a range of eco technologies.”

Both OOCL and MOL are companions within the G6 Alliance together with Hapag-Lloyd, NYK Lines, Hyundai Merchant Marine and APL, serving the Asia-Europe and Mediterranean commerce traces.

As it stands now, by the tip of 2017 the G6 Alliance could have a complete of 12 20,000+ TEU vessels in operation, together with OOCL’s six items, MOL’s 4, and two further 20,150 TEU ships beneath a long-term constitution with MOL which might be being constructed at Imabari Shipbuilding Co. in Japan.