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Maersk has ordered the construction of seven portacontainer ice-class from 3.600 teu
the ships will be realized by Chinese ship yard COSCO Shipyard
March 26, 2015
The company of navigation Maersk Line has ordered today to Chinese ship yard COSCO Shipyard the construction of seven portacontainer ice-class of the ability to 3.600 teu. The ships, that they are commissioned by the Danish company for the branch Seago Line that work intra-European services, will be taken in delivery between the April and the November of 2017, will be long 200 meters, wide 35,2 meters and will have a -10 draught meters. The order includes an option for two other ships.
The operating director of Maersk Line, Søren Toft, has explained that the strategy of the company previews an increase in the European market: from the necessity to equip itself here of the new portacontainer. Toft has specified that the company previews to place other orders for new constructions in the course of 2015.
Seago Line will employ the new portacontainer in the regions of the Baltic Sea and the Sea of the North having replaced ships of not advanced ability to half of those formers. Maersk has specified that the portacontenitori constructed from COSCO Shipyard will be consistent to the new limits on the emissions in areas SECA (SOx Emission Control Area) nordeuropee taken effect 1°th January.
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