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NOL signs letters of attempts for 10 portacontainer from 14.000 teu and two from 9.200 teu
The orders will have a total value of about 1,54 billion dollars and will include the increment of ability to ten ships from 8.400 to 9.200 teu
June 15, 2011
The race of the main shipowning companies is not stopped that operate services of line to the widening of the ability to the respective fleets with the emission of orders for the construction of large portacontainer. After to have tidy ten great ships last summer ( on 21 July and 16 August 2010), the group Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) of Singapore has announced today to have signed letters of attempts for the construction of others 12 large ones portacontainer.
Draft of ten ships of the unitary ability to 14.000 teu that they will be constructed by the Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co. South Korean and of two ships of the unitary ability to 9.200 teu that Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co will be realized by the South Korean Daewoo. (DSME).
Moreover group NOL has announced that the ordered ability to the ten portacontainer from 8.400 teu in the course of 2010 will be elevated to 9.200 teu.
Altogether the value of the new store clerks, included those for the increment of ability to the tidy ships last year, will pile to about 1,54 billion dollars.
The new ships will be taken in delivery from the group of Singapore in the course of 2013 and 2014. The ships of the ability to 14.000 teu will be employed by branch APL on the routes between Asia and Europe, while the portacontainer by 9.200 teu they will be used in the transpacifici services.
NOL has explained that the investment in the new ships of large-capacity has the objective to reduce the operating unitary costs and of capital, to satisfy the increase requirements and to replace the older ships rental and than smaller abilities that will be given back the shipping owners.
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The race of the main shipowning companies is not stopped that operate services of line to the widening of the ability to the respective fleets with the emission of orders for the construction of large portacontainer. After to have tidy ten great ships last summer 
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