Samsung Heavy Industries To Build 16 Containerships For Evergreen
Samsung Heavy Industries announced the official contract with Evergreen for the construction of 16 methanol-fuelled, 16,000 teu containerships.
The vessels are scheduled to be delivered by December 2027.
With the Evergreen contract, Samsung Heavy Industries has increased its order intake this year to a total of 25 ships, worth $6.3 billion and achieved 66% of its annual target.
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The worth of the contract is estimated at some KRW3.99 trillion ($3.11bn) and it’s the largest ever for a single shipbuilding contract place with the shipyard.
This broke the previous record of KRW 3.33 trillion for 12 LNG carriers set by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI).
Samsung Heavy Industries succeeded in expanding its alternative fuel vessels from LNG to methanol through this contract and expects to further strengthen its competitiveness in the eco-friendly ship market in the future, commented the shipyard.
Evergreen is ordering a total of twenty-four 16,000 teu methanol-powered newbuildings. The contract for the other eight newbuildings is being placed with Nihon Shipyard in Japan and combined all 24 newbuildings will cost $5 billion.
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