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New order of Maersk for nine portacontainer of large-capacity
Store clerk of the value of 1,1 billion dollars to HHI for ships from 14.000 teu with ulterior options until eight unit
July 8, 2015
Today the company of Danish navigation Maersk Line, hardly a month from the order in confronts of navalmeccanico group South Korean DSME in order to obtain 11 large new portacontainer of TripleE type of the 19.630 ability to teu ( on 3 June 2015) and to three months from the store clerk to Chinese COSCO Shipyard for the supply of seven new portacontainer feeder from 3.600 teu ( on 26 March 2015), a contract with the South Korean shipbuilding society Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the construction of nine portacontenitori from 14.000 teu has signed, with ulterior options until eight unit of the same type.
The new contract has a value of 1,1 billion dollars. The nine portacontainer by 14.000 teu, that 353 meters will be long, they will be taken in delivery in 2017 and will fly the flag of Singapore.
Currently the fleet of portacontainer of the Maersk Line is constituted by 618 ships, of which 42% about of property and the remainder rental, for a total cargo ability pairs more than three million than teu. The pocketbook orders of the company includes others as an option 38 ships (excluded those) for a total ability to about 500 thousand teu.
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