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Matson orders the construction of two portacontainer from 3.600 teu to Aker Philadelphia Shipyard
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November 7, 2013
The company of American navigation Matson Navigation Co. it has ordered to the ship yard American Aker Philadelphia Shipyard Inc. (APSI) the construction of two portacontainer from 3.600 teu. . The two new ships, that they will be delivered in the third and fourth trimester of 2018, will be equipped with dual engines fuels that could be fed with liquified natural gas.
The two ships, that 259 meters will be long and will have a speed of beyond 23 knots, will come employees in the traffics with Hawaii and will be the larger portacontenitori never constructed for being employees in the marine traffics Americans regulated from Jones Act.
Currently in the ship yard Aker Philadelphia Exxon Mobil Corporation group is under construction two oil tankers of 115.000 gross capacities in tons for the SeaRiver Marine (). Moreover APSI, in joint venture with the compatriot Crowley Maritime Corporation, has in course contracted for the construction of four product tanker that they will be completed in 2015 and 2016 with options for other four ships of the same type that would be delivered in 2017; the value of the contract for the first four units is of about 500 million dollars (Aker Philadelphia will invest about 115 million dollars in the project).
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