Maerks orders to DSME the construction of others ten portacontainer from 18.000 teu



The South Korean navalmeccanico group Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) has obtained today from shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk a new order for the construction of ten portacontainer from 18.000 teu that they were opzionate last February ( on 21 February 2011). The new store clerk has a total value of beyond 2.000 billion won (1,85 billion dollars). The ten ships, long 400 meters and wide 59 meters, will have to be delivered between 2014 and on May 20, 2015 and formers in February will join to the first ten units of the same type (Triple).

The Danish group will introduce the ten new ships on the routes between Asia and Europe operated by the branch Maersk Line. The company considers that the question for this relation of traffic will grow of the 5-8% in period 2011-2015.

A.P. Møller-Mærsk has time until the end of this year in order to exercise the last option with relative DSME to the third series of 10 portacontainer from 18.000 teu. The group has specified not to be currently disposed to exercise such option, but that the right is reserved to assume the final decision within the end of 2011.

While the shipowning group and logistic Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) of Singapore has transformed in orders letters of attempts sign in recent days with group DMSE and the other South Korean ship yard Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co. for the construction of 12 portacontainer of large-capacity ( on 15 June 2011). The store clerks, of the total value of 1,54 billion dollars, are relative to two new ships from 9.200 teu that they will be constructed by DSME and to ten new ships from 14.000 teu that they will be realized by the compatriot Hyundai Samho and comprise also the increment of the ability from 8.400 teu to 9.200 teu to ten portacontainer ordered to the same DSME.

Communicating today the subscription of the orders group NOL it has announced to have agreed the chartering of five of the new portacontainer from 14.000 teu the Japanese Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), than will take to them in delivery in 2013 and 2014 when they are completed. NOL and MOL have reached an agreement for the chartering of the duration three-year-old with the objective to upgrade the service carried out from the The New World Alliance, the constituted shipowning alliance by MOL, the APL, branch of group NOL, and from the South Korean Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM). All the new ten ordered ships from 14.000 from NOL, in delivery between 2013 and 2014, will come therefore introduced on the routes between Asia and Europe and five will be operated by APL and the others five from MOL.

NOL has announced also to have received confirmations from several financial institutions and institutions financial institutions for a total financing of the value of about 1,14 billion dollars in order constructing the 12 new ships. NOL has specified that the residual quota investment will be financed with the recently emitted obligations from the group and with internal resources.

At last the shipowning company Saudi National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA) has signed an agreement with the Saudi British Bank (SABB) and with the National Commercial Bank for a financing of the value of 822,6 million riyal (219 million dollars) that it will be used in order to finance 80% of the construction of two multipurpose ships, while remaining 20% will be financed with resources own of the company. The order for the construction of the two ships, with option for ulterior two unit, is assigned to the South Korean Hyundai MIPO Shipyard ( on 7 March 2011).