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CMA CGM and Maersk have ordered new portacontainer to Chinese group CSSC
Store clerk of the French group for ten ships from 15.000 teu. The order of the Danish company is for ten units from 2.200 teu
March 26, 2019
The French shipowning group CMA CGM and that Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk has emitted orders regarding Chinese ship yards for the new construction portacontainer. Yesterday, in occasion of the encounter in France between Chinese Popular President of the Republic, XI Jinping, and French president Emmanuel Macron, the president and managing director of CMA CGM, Rodolphe Saadé, with her has undersigned Fanpei, president of the navalmeccanico group China Is been Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), an agreement for the construction of ten portacontenitori of the ability to 15.000 teu, long ships 366 meters that will be taken in delivery beginning from 2021. The French group has announced that the ten new units, of which five with propulsion fed to liquified natural gas and the equipped others five of scrubber in order pulling down the polluting emissions, will be used in order to replace ten others portacontainer and will come employees on the routes between Asia and the Mediterranean. Saadé and Fanpei have signed also another agreement of cooperation in order to collaborate to the development of more efficient ships and with a minor impact on the atmosphere.
While also the Maersk has ordered the new construction portacontainer to the CSSC. Draft of the first store clerk of the Danish group to that Chinese for ships of this type. The order is relative to the construction of ten portacontainer feeder from 2.208 teu, that they will be realized by the ship yard Jiangnan Shipyard of group CSSC and will be classified by China Classification Society (CCS). The new Panamax units will be long 172 meters and wide 32,2 meters.
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