On Form 6-K filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Exchange Commission (SEC), Canada's Atlas Corp. that last June the Seaspan Corporation, company chartering a fleet of container ships of properties, has ordered the shipyards to build as many as 27 new container ships with a capacity ranging from 9,000 and 17,000 TEUs. In the document Atlas, which owns 100% of the Seaspan, specifies that the 27 new ships will be taken into account delivery between 2027 and 2028 and will be rented for a long time term.

As of June 30, Seaspan's fleet consisted of 176 container ships and the orderbook included another 35 new ships.