MSC has the most new shipbuilding orders since the crisis
2013-08-01 09:39
Recently, newbuilding prices have hit record lows, leading to a significant increase in demand for environmentally friendly, low-fuel-consumption vessels. Based on the order volume of various container shipping companies since 2009 (following the financial crisis), including both owned and chartered vessels, the Swiss container shipping company MSC ranked first globally, having ordered 45 container ships with a total capacity of 473,000 TEU.
According to Alphaliner, a global container ship market analysis agency, approximately 97,000 TEU of newbuilds have already been delivered, with the remaining 376,000 TEU to be delivered over the next three years.
According to 4 month MSC According to publicly released information from the company, MSC plans to sell shares in its terminal investment projects, 35% securing approximately 19 USD in funding. Furthermore, there are no shortcomings with the company's financing of vessels primarily through CIMC Leasing Hong Kong Limited (" CIMC Leasing Hong Kong ”) The company's liquidity is strong, and in the past two months, it has surpassed Evergreen and Maersk in terms of vessels under construction, ranking first globally. If the current trend continues, the gap may widen further.
Recently, MSC ordered and chartered 7 vessels and 5 vessels 8800TEU of Neo-panamax Wide-beam container ships, totaling 12 container ships, through CIMC Leasing Hong Kong, a subsidiary of China International Marine Containers (Group) Co., Ltd., from Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu New Times Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. in China.
Following 2009, Evergreen of Taiwan and Maersk of Denmark ordered approximately 430,000 TEU and 380,000 TEU of container ships respectively, second only to MSC.
During the same period, APL of Singapore and Hamburg Süd of Germany ordered 280,000 TEU and 200,000 TEU of container ships respectively. Following these were CSCL, OOCL, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, Hanjin Shipping, and CSAV.
During the same period, in terms of the number of vessels, MSC and Evergreen jointly ranked first, followed by Hamburg Süd, APL, Maersk, PIL, Hanjin Shipping, and SITC.
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