Chinese-Taiwanese liner giant Evergreen Marine plans to continue ordering methanol dual-fuel-powered container ships, meaning the company's spending on newbuildings from 2021 onwards will be raised to more than $10bn.
According to Trade Winds, Evergreen Marine has initiated the tender process for its latest 2,400 TEU methanol dual-fuel-powered feeder containerships, and is seeking to order six newbuildings that can be delivered in 2027, with a total value of more than US$320 million (roughly CNY2.318 billion), which works out to a single-vessel cost of about US$53.33 million.
The above six new ships is Evergreen Marine 2023 order 24 16000 TEU methanol dual-fuel powered container ships after another new shipbuilding programme, if the official order, it means that Evergreen Marine since 2021 in the field of new shipbuilding has invested more than 10 billion U.S. dollars (about RMB 72.444 billion yuan).
It is understood that last year's order of 24 large container ships by Samsung Heavy Industries and Japan Shipbuilding (Imabari Shipbuilding, Nippon Shipbuilding joint venture shipyard, Nihon Shipyard) were contracted 16 and 8, the cost of a single ship of about $ 196 million, the total value of the order of about $ 4,704 million. Samsung Heavy Industries is expected to be delivered before December 2027; Japan Shipbuilding's delivery date has not been disclosed.
According to incomplete statistics, Evergreen Marine since 2021, a total of 82 container ship orders, mainly concentrated in the China Shipbuilding Group's Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, CSBC Whampoa Wenchong, as well as South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries and Japan Shipbuilding the four shipbuilding enterprises, the number of orders were 9, 24, 41, 8. Among them, Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, Samsung Heavy Industries and Japan Shipbuilding are large / ultra-large container ships, feeder container ships are undertaken by the CSBC Huangpu Wenchong.
At present, about Evergreen Marine 6 2400 TEU methanol dual-fuel feeder container new shipbuilding plan shipyard information has not yet been exposed, but if it is the continuation of the signing of the tradition since 2021, China Ship Whampoa Wenchong or will continue to get the liner giant's favour.
In recent years, methanol dual-fuel-powered feeder containerships have become the main order-taking vessel type in the field of containerships for CSBC Whampoa Wenchong. In 2023 alone, CSBC Whampoa Wenchong will receive 23+4 methanol dual-fuel powered feeder containerships, including 6+2 1,250 TEU methanol dual-fuel powered open-top containerships ordered by Singapore shipping company X-Press Feeder Group, 2+2 1,250 TEU methanol dual-fuel powered open-top containerships ordered by Danish offshore operator Unifeeder Group, and 2+2 1,250 TEU methanol dual-fuel powered open-top containerships ordered by Danish shipping giant Unifeeder Group. and 3,500 TEU methanol dual-fuel powered open top containerships ordered by Danish shipping giant Maersk.
It is understood that as the largest shipbuilding unit in South China, CSBC Whampoa Wenchong has rich experience in shipbuilding and repairing, and feeder container ships, merchant cargo ships, dredgers, offshore engineering vessels and research vessels are the representative products of the company's civil product construction plate. At present, CSBC Whampoa Wenchong has formed a batch production line of feeder container ships with specifications of 1100TEU, 1500TEU, 1900TEU, 2700TEU, 3000TEU, 3400TEU and so on.
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