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Hyundai Merchant Marine will order the construction of 20 great container vessels
Negotiations with South Korean ship yards. Twelve ships will have an ability at least 20,000 teu and eight of 14.000 teu
April 10, 2018
The South Korean shipowning society Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has announced today that it will order to national ship yards the construction of 20 great ecological container vessels, of which eight of the ability to 14.000 teu and 12 of the ability at least 20,000 teu, that they will be the ships of greater ability to the fleet of the company that currently is constituted by units that can load little more to the maximum than 13.000 teu.
The South Korean company has specified that, if the construction of the new ships will begin quickly after the selection of the which charged yards of their realization and the next subscription of letters of attempts and final contracts, the portacontainer they could be completed within on January 1°, 2020 when the normative new of the International Organization (IMO will take effect Maritime) that they will impose a reduction from 3.5% to 0.5% of the sulfur tenor in fuel of the ships.
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