Seaspan's 10,000-TEU MOL Beacon delivered from Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu yard
INDEPENDENT owner and manager of container, Seaspan Corporation, has announced that it has taken delivery of the 10,000-TEU MOL Beacon, built by Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding Co Ltd.
This is the New York-listed company's seventh 10,000-TEUer and the 12th ship with Seaspan's fuel-efficient SAVER design and the first delivered in 2015.
The MOL Beacon will commence an eight-year, fixed-rate time charter with MOL. It's the fourth of a total of five 10,000-TEU SAVER design vessels, and the tenth of eleven vessels to be chartered by Seaspan to MOL. The delivery of the MOL Beacon expands the company's operating fleet to 78 vessels.