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The Japanese MOL orders to Samsung Heavy Industries four new mega portacontainer from 20.150 teu
Store clerk of the value of about 618 million dollars. Moreover MOL has agreed with Shoei Kisen Kaisha the chartering of two new ships from 20.000 teu
March 2, 2015
The shipowning group Japanese Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has ordered to the South Korean shipbuilding company Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) the construction of four portacontainer that, with a unitary ability to 20.150 teu, they will be the ships larger full hands container of the world. Moreover the shipowning group MOL has signed an agreement with the compatriot Shoei Kisen Kaisha for the chartering in the long term of two new portacontainer from 20.000 teu that the company has recently ordered to the Japanese ship yard Imabari Shipbuilding Co. ( on 29 January 2015). The six ships will be taken in delivery in 2017 (within August, it establishes the memorandum of understanding with SHI) and will be introduced by MOL in the services between Asia and Europe.
The store clerk with Samsung Heavy Industries has a total value of 681 billion won (618 million dollars).
The four ships ordered to the South Korean navalmeccanico group will be long 400,0 meters, wide 58,8 meters and will have a draught of 14,5 meters (the loaded ship immersion will be of 16,0 meters). The main engine of the portacontainer, a MAN B&W G95ME of Diesel German MAN & Turbo, could be adapted to uses it of which combustible the which liquified natural gas.
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The shipowning group Japanese Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has ordered to the South Korean shipbuilding company Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) the construction of four portacontainer that, with a unitary ability to 20.150 teu, they will be the ships larger full hands container of the world. Moreover the shipowning group MOL has signed an agreement with the compatriot Shoei Kisen Kaisha for the chartering in the long term of two new portacontainer from 20.000 teu that the company has recently ordered to the Japanese ship yard Imabari Shipbuilding Co. 
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