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Shipbuilding news: newbuilding orders, shipyard deliveries, vessel designs and orderbook trends from yards worldwide.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen has signed an agreement with China’s Jinling Shipyard for four new LNG dual-fuel pure car and truck carriers, with options for eight more that could bring the deal to roughly $1.5 billion.
Greek shipowners placed 40 newbuilding orders in October, with a more balanced mix of bulkers, tankers, containerships and gas carriers than in recent months.
Saudi Arabia’s national shipping carrier Bahri has signed a contract with shipyard International Maritime Industries to build three 320,000-dwt VLCCs for delivery between 2029 and 2030.
Greece’s maritime minister proposed greater participation by Greek marine equipment manufacturers in Chinese shipbuilding projects during talks in Shanghai with China’s transport minister.
A wave of new vessel orders from MSC and HMM has pushed the global containership orderbook to a fresh record of 16.2 million TEU as scrapping activity stays near historic lows.
International Seaways has agreed to acquire Oslo-listed VLCC owner Bruton Limited for approximately $370 million, adding four very large crude carriers to its fleet.
South Korea’s HMM has approved a $1.62 billion investment in 12 containerships, combining eight new 13,000 TEU newbuildings with four resale feeder vessels.
Capital Maritime Finance, the containership platform controlled by Greek shipowner Evangelos Marinakis, attracted more than four times its target in investor orders for an initial public offering that became the first shipping company listing exclusively on Euronext Athens.
Greek shipowners, led by George Procopiou’s Dynacom Tankers, have ordered 12 new tankers worth hundreds of millions of dollars at China’s Hengli Heavy Industries.
Greek owner Danaos is weighing a carve-out and minority stake sale of its dry bulk business through a potential listing on the Norwegian market.
