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OOIL orders to Samsung Heavy Industries the construction of six portacontainer from 21.100 teu
the new ships will be delivered in 2017
April 1, 2015
The group Orient Overseas (International) Ltd. (OOIL) of Hong Kong has announced to have tidy for its company of navigation Orient Overseas Container Linens (OOCL) the construction of six portacontainer from 20.000 teu that they will be realized by the South Korean navalmeccanica company Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI). The six contracts have a total value of about 951,6 million dollars. The new ships will be taken in delivery within November 2017.
Group SHI has specified that the six portacontainer they will be largest of the world as they will have a effective ability to 21.100 teu. The South Korean group has specified moreover that the ships will be long 400 meters and wide 58,8 meters, analogous dimension to that of the portacontenitori of the ordered ability to 20.100 teu from the Japanese MOL ( on 2 March 2015).
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