Seaspan Corporation, a company that since its inception established in 2000 has operated in the field of container carriers, mainly by chartering vessels of ownership to other players in the segment, but also for a some of its own vessels, it has announced the entry into another naval segment, that of the Pure Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC). Atlas Corp., which owns the entire Seaspan's capital, announced today that the entry into the new market segment will be together with the Hyundai Glovis, companies of the South Korean automotive group Hyundai Motor and specialized in the maritime transport of vehicles, in the field of Asian Ship Building Company Dual Garage Program LNG fuel with a capacity of 10,800 ceu, which can be fuelled with ammonia and methanol.

The new PCTC ships, built by the Shanghai shipyard Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding of China State Shipbuilding Group Corporation, will be leased on a long-term basis to Hyundai Glovis. Atlas did not specify how many new garage ships will be added to the 70 container ships that are part of the company's order book Seaspan, whose fleet currently consists of about 140 full container.