Wan Hai orders to build 12 new container ships
Wan Hai Lines has ordered dozens of new 3,013TEU ships from Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU) and Nihon Shipyards, the carrier said on January 25.
The Taiwanese carrier, which focuses on intra-Asia shipping routes, said in a filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange with the decision to order new shipbuilding after it reviewed the regulation. Current fleet size and future business growth.
- The total value of the new shipbuilding contract is USD 565.2 million. Delivery dates for newly-built ships are currently unknown, but it takes shipyards about two years to complete a ship.
- The Nihon Shipyard, a joint venture between Japan’s two largest shipbuilders, JMU and Imabari Shipbuilding, was put into operation on January 5.
JMU is still building four 3,000TEU ships that Wan Hai ordered in 2018; These ships are scheduled for handover this year. Wan Hai will also receive six new 2,038TEU builders from Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard this year, and another six similar from the same shipyard by 2022.
- Like other shipping lines in the same industry, Wan Hai, currently the 11th largest shipping operator in the world, is expanding its fleet with new construction and purchase of second-hand ships, amid high freight rates. green. The airline’s total capacity is currently 332,998 TEU, including 69 owned vessels.
- In December 2020, Wan Hai spent $ 360 million on the purchase of used ships and so far the company has purchased seven ships.
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