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Shipping lowers Lines Container orders eight new portacontainer from 10.000 teu
Options for other four ships. Store clerks to the yards Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co. and Dalian Shipbuilding Heavy Industries Ltd. Co.
October 31, 2011
The shipowning society Lowers Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) has signed agreement of the total value of 1.131, 36 million dollars in order to acquire eight new portacontainer from 10.000 teu with option for ulterior four ships of the same ability, for unitary costs of 94,28 million dollars for each of the 12 ships.
Four ships will be constructed by the Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co. and four from the Dalian Shipbuilding Heavy Industries Ltd. Co. All the eight portacontainer, that they will involve an investment of 754,24 million dollars, will have to be delivered within on November 30, 2013. To both yards options, exercisable are assigned within on April 27, 2012, for the construction of others two ships, with delivery of the first within on July 31, 2014 and the second one within on September 30, 2014.
While the Chinese shipowning company has closed the third trimester of 2011 with a net loss of 951,2 million yuan (150 million dollars), while in the first nine months of this year the net loss is piled to 1.581, 6 million yuan. Sul forehead of the revenues, in the third trimester of the 2011 volume of transactions has been of 7,2 billion yuan, with a decrease of 36.3% on the same period of 2010, and in the period January-september of the 2011 has been attested 21,17 billion to yuan, down of 22.6% on the same period last year.
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