- Four LPG Carriers Postponed at Hyundai Mipo
Hong Kong-based shipowner Seaspan Corporation has added a new containership to its fleet today as it took delivery of the 10,000 TEU boxship Maersk Genoa.
The new vessel, which was constructed at Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding, is Seaspan’s eleventh 10,000 TEU SAVER design containership and fifth delivery in 2016.
Maersk Genoa will commence a five-year, fixed-rate time charter with Danish shipping giant Maersk Line, the company said, adding that “Maersk may extend the charter with two consecutive one-year options.”
The ship is the second of a total of two 10,000 TEU SAVER design vessels to be chartered by Seaspan to Maersk.
The delivery of Maersk Genoa expands the company’s operating fleet to 89 vessels with an age of six years.
Seaspan’s managed fleet consists of 115 containerships representing a total capacity of over 920,000 TEU, including 12 newbuilding containerships on order scheduled for delivery to Seaspan and third parties by the end of 2017.
In the meantime, South Korea’s shipbuilder Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) revealed in a stock exchange filing that two companies pushed the delivery dates of a total of four liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers.
Namely, the company said that an undisclosed Liberian customer decided to delay the delivery of two LPG carriers by three months from the initially scheduled delivery date of November 2017 to the end of February 2018. The two ships were ordered in August 2015 for a price of KRW 119.9 billion (USD 108.3 million), however, the contract price was modified to KRW 120.1 billion, Hyundai Mipo said.
The second delivery postponement was made by a Marshall Islands-based owner. The company delayed its two LPG carriers, ordered in July 2015, by six months, pushing the delivery date from August 2017 to the end of February 2018. The vessels were priced at KRW 115.3 billion.
The announcement was made less than two months after the shipbuilder received a request from a European customer to delay an LPG carrier duo and a liquefied ethylene gas (LEG) carrier.
The delivery of these ships was pushed from October 2017 to the end of April 2018.
World Maritime News
