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the Japanese ship yard Imabari Shipbuilding will construct first portacontainer from 20.000 teu
Shoei Kisen Kaisha will rent 11 ships from 18.000 teu to the Evergreen
January 29, 2015
It will be the Japanese ship yard Imabari Shipbuilding Co. to construct first portacontainer of the ability to 20.000 teu, the most elevated up to now in this segment of world-wide the shipbuilding. Today Imabari has specified that the relative order to these new Ultra Large Container Ship (ULCS), that foreign countries will be delivered to shipowners, is obtained in cooperation with the compatriot Marubeni Corporation.
The 11 ships will be long 400 meters, wide 59 meters and before the series it will be completed at the beginning of 2018.
Moreover Imabari has announced that, to the aim to realize these ULCS, it has decided to construct a new dry dock of the length of about 600 meters and of the width of 80 meters in presses of the headquarters of the company to Marugame. The work, that they will be executed by the consortium constituted from Rinkai Construction Co., Obayashi Corporation and Toyo Construction Co. , they will be started in the next few months and the basin will be completed in October of the next year. For the realization of the work, included the acquisition of three cranes of the ability to 1.200 tons, will be invested about 40 billion yen (340 million dollars).
While yesterday the shipowning society Japanese Shoei Kisen Kaisha, to which Imabari it is associate, has agreed the chartering in the long term of 11 portacontenitori from 18.000 teu to the taiwanese company Evergreen Marine Corporation. The new ships, that they will be long also 400 meters and wide 59 meters, will be taken in delivery between 2018 and 2019.
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It will be the Japanese ship yard Imabari Shipbuilding Co. to construct first portacontainer of the ability to 20.000 teu, the most elevated up to now in this segment of world-wide the shipbuilding. Today Imabari has specified that the relative order to these new Ultra Large Container Ship (ULCS), that foreign countries will be delivered to shipowners, is obtained in cooperation with the compatriot Marubeni Corporation.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
