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another order for new portacontainer of large-capacity emitted from Seaspan Corporation
Store clerks to the Jiangsu Chineses New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co. and Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding Co. for four ships from 10.000 teu
January 23, 2013
In complete disregard of the multiple and authoritative forecasts on the impact negative that the excess of hold ability will have on the containerized marine transport, the armament Seaspan Corporation, hardly little days from the order emitted to shipbuilding group HHI for the construction of five portacontainer from 14.000 teu with option for others five ships( 16of January 2013), today the company has announced to have undersigned contracted with the Chinese ship yards Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co. and Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding Co. for the construction of four portacontainer of the unitary ability to 10.000 teu that moreover already they are rented to the company of Japanese navigation Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL). Meanwhile Seaspan has tightened an agreement with MOL in order to buy from the Japanese company four portacontainer from 4.600 constructed in the 2003 that will be rented same MOL.
the four new ships from 10.000 teu will be taken in delivery in 2014, while the ships of MOL will pass to the Seaspan in the course of the second half of the year of this year and in the first trimester of the 2014.
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