Wan Hai Lines Confirmed Orders For 12 New Vessels
As part of the company’s fleet improvement plan, Wan Hai Lines has confirmed an order of twelve(12) 3055 Teu container vessels with Nihon Shipyard Co Ltd. (NSY) / Japan Marine United Corp (JMU). The contract was signed on 28th June 2021. These new vessels will start taking delivery in end of July of 2023.
Currently, Wan Hai Lines operates a fleet of 86 owned vessels and 64 chartered vessels. This new shipbuilding contract is the company’s latest fleet renewal plan, so as to ensure that the company’s vessel fleet is able to maintain competitive and support continuous market development. Eventually, the company hopes to deliver better service quality to its customers by more efficient vessel fleet.
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Samsung Heavy Industries announced on Feb. 18 that it has won an order for four LNG-powered very large crude oil carriers (VLCCs) for a total of 458.7 billion won from a shipping company in Oceania. These ships will be delivered sequentially by June 2023.
Samsung Heavy Industries won orders for nine LNG-powered vessels worth 1.2 trillion won in a week, including the five LNG-powered container ships logged last week.
The ships will feature diverse eco-friendly technologies to satisfy regulations on pollutant emissions, including the S-Fugas, an LNG fuel supply system for high pressure gas-diesel engines, energy saving devices which reduce ship friction resistance, and shaft generators which generate power by using shafts’ turning force.
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Source: Business Korea
Wan Hai Lines Confirmed Orders For 12 New Vessels
After its last order of 8 container ships from Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU) back in November 2018, Wan Hai Lines again contracted twelve new-build 3,013Teu ships with JMU/Nihon Shipyard Co Ltd. (NSY) today. This new series of vessels are expected to be delivered successively from end of October 2022.
As part of Wan Hai’s continuous efforts on providing quality shipping service to its customers, most advanced design specification will be employed to ensure higher energy efficiency with less air pollution. All twelve ships will be powered by more environmentally friendly main engines and generators both meet IMO Tier III standards in terms of NOx emission. In addition, Alternate Maritime Power (AMP) systems are also outfitted so as to enable shore power connection and thus can significantly reduce air pollution when the vessels are berthed.
This new order is part of Wan Hai’s fleet renewal plan. The new vessels will strengthen the company’s capacity to extend its market coverage and to serve its customers in a timely and reliable manner.