Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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Yang Ming and Evergreen upgrade the fleets of portacontainer
the first company agrees the chartering of five portacontainer from 14.000 teu, the second one orders the construction of 10 ships from 2.800 teu
September 11, 2015
Evergreen Line and Yang Ming, two of the main companies of navigation of Taiwan, are being equipped of a new series portacontainer. Yang Ming has agreed with the shipowning society Japanese Shoei Kisen Kaisha the chartering of five ships of the ability to 14.000 teu whose construction is ordered to the Japanese ship yard Imabari Shipbuilding and that they will be delivered in 2018-2019.
Evergreen instead has directly ordered to the same Imabari yard the construction of ten portacontainer from 2.800 teu, store clerk who follows a that emitted month ago in confronts of navalmeccanico group taiwanese CSBC for ten ships of the same type ( on 10 August 2015). Imabari will deliver the first ship to the company of Taiwan in the course of the first half of 2018 and the entire supply will be completed in the course of the first semester of the next year. Evergreen has specified that it will employ all the 20 portacontenitori in the traffics intra-asiati us. The new ships from 2.800 teu will be long 211 meters, wide 32,8 meters and will introduce an immersion of project of 10 meters.
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