SOUTH Korea's hmm announced it will pay US$1.57 billion for 12 container ships that each can carry 13,000 TEU, reports New York's American Shipper.
The ocean carrier said it had signed newbuild contracts with South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Hyundai Heavy Industries. Each shipyard will build six container ships, with all 12 scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2024. All will be installed with hybrid scrubbers and designed to be liquefied natural gas ready.
'Our newly ordered container ships will be fitted with the latest energy-efficient technologies,' HMM said in a three-paragraph press release. 'We expect these ships to give us strong environmental credentials as well as to provide us with the capacity and flexibility to get our customers' cargo to the right place at the right time.'
Last year HMM launched 12 of the world's-largest 24,000-TEU container ships. On its maiden voyage in April 2020, the HMM Algeciras, the first of the 12 behemoths, carried 19,621 TEUs.
HMM, a member of THE Alliance space-sharing cooperative with Hapag-Lloyd, Yang Ming and Ocean Network Express (ONE), is taking delivery of eight 16,000-TEU container ships this year. The first, the HMM Nuri, was deployed in late March. The Nuri is deployed on THE Alliance's Far East-Europe 4 service, embarking from Busan, South Korea, and sailing to Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Singapore, Suez Canal, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, Southampton, Suez Canal, Yantian, Hong Kong, Shanghai and returning to Busan. With port calls and without delays, the entire rotation takes nearly 85 days.
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The ocean carrier said it had signed newbuild contracts with South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Hyundai Heavy Industries. Each shipyard will build six container ships, with all 12 scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2024. All will be installed with hybrid scrubbers and designed to be liquefied natural gas ready.
'Our newly ordered container ships will be fitted with the latest energy-efficient technologies,' HMM said in a three-paragraph press release. 'We expect these ships to give us strong environmental credentials as well as to provide us with the capacity and flexibility to get our customers' cargo to the right place at the right time.'
Last year HMM launched 12 of the world's-largest 24,000-TEU container ships. On its maiden voyage in April 2020, the HMM Algeciras, the first of the 12 behemoths, carried 19,621 TEUs.
HMM, a member of THE Alliance space-sharing cooperative with Hapag-Lloyd, Yang Ming and Ocean Network Express (ONE), is taking delivery of eight 16,000-TEU container ships this year. The first, the HMM Nuri, was deployed in late March. The Nuri is deployed on THE Alliance's Far East-Europe 4 service, embarking from Busan, South Korea, and sailing to Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Singapore, Suez Canal, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, Southampton, Suez Canal, Yantian, Hong Kong, Shanghai and returning to Busan. With port calls and without delays, the entire rotation takes nearly 85 days.
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