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PROUD South Korean shipbuilders are leading the ultra large containership market as well as liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, reports BusinessKorea.<\/p>\n
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co (DSME) is planning to deliver one of five 23,000-TEU ships ordered by Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) in September 2017 on July 19.<\/p>\n
This is the same size with the world’s largest containership built by Samsung Heavy Industries Co and delivered to MSC earlier.<\/p>\n
Previously, MSC placed an order for 11 vessels – six with Samsung Heavy and five with DSME.<\/p>\n
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A 23,000-TEU ultra large vessel is priced at US$164 million per ship. Ultra large containerships with capacity surpassing 20,000 TEU boast of high added value at US$144.19 million per vessel.<\/p>\n
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The South Korean shipbuilding industry believes that it stands out due to from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) regulations scheduled to kick off January 1, 2020,<\/p>\n
to reduce sulphur oxide emission from 3.5 per cent m\/m to 0.5 per cent m\/m.<\/p>\n
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Ships ordered by MSC to Samsung Heavy and DSME are LNG-ready vessels with scrubbers that can be easily remodelled into LNG-powered ones.<\/p>\n
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This is why domestic shipbuilders have 56.3 per cent of the total order backlogs for ultra large container vessels.<\/p>\n
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DSME has the largest cumulative order backlogs for containerships with a capacity of more than 15,000 TEU from January 1 to July 5 this year at 12 and 18.8 per cent,<\/p>\n
followed by Samsung Heavy with 11 and 17.2 per cent. Hyundai Heavy Industries Co came in fourth with eight and 12.5 per cent<\/p>\n
and Samho Heavy Industries Co eighth with five and 7.8 per cent.<\/p>\n
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In addition, the industry expects that there would be the so-called chicken game in the shipping industry to win orders to build ultra large containerships.<\/p>\n
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Said one official: ‘Currently, shipping companies can’t help but join a shipping alliance or expand competitiveness by securing ultra large container vessel deals to survive.’<\/p>\n
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Taiwanese shipping giant Evergreen Marine is preparing to place an order to construct up to eleven 23,000 TEUers.<\/p>\n
Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd is also considering ordering six ships of the same size.<\/p>\n
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Samsung Heavy and DSME announced that they have already started to prepare for bids for Evergreen. Hyundai Heavy is also forecast to participate in the tender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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