The Rickmers Group has christened four ultra-large container ships (ULCS) - 13,100 TEU each - at Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan shipyard.
Each of the four ships, Pearl Rickmers, Ruby Rickmers, Aqua Rickmers and Coconee Rickmers, has been chartered long-term to Maersk Line, and will join Maersk's E-class as Maersk Edinburgh, Maersk Emden, Maersk Eindhoven and Maersk Essen.
The ships will be delivered one by one during July and August 2010, and will be phased in to Maersk's new joint service with CMA CGM that links Asia and North Europe.
As Maersk's AE8 service, it will deploy ten ships of this size, each partner contributing five. The port rotation will be: Ningbo > Shanghai > Yantian > Tanjung Pelepas > Port Kelang > Le Havre > Hamburg > Rotterdam > Zeebrugge > Port Kelang > Singapore > Ningbo.
Another four sister ships are due for delivery to the Rickmers Group in 2011, also for charter to Maersk Line. All have been fixed for ten-year periods with further options. The first of these four vessels will be delivered in January, with the others following in February, May and July.
Including the four 13,100 TEU ships christened, Rickmers's fleet now comprises 107 vessels.
The Evergreen Group has placed orders with Samsung Heavy Industries ten 8,000 TEU L-class environmentally advanced container vessels.
Six of the new vessels will be built for Evergreen Marine Corp and four for Evergreen International (Panama).
The first vessel is due for delivery in 2012, and will join Evergreen Line's global containership fleet.
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