Hyundai building 19,000-TEU ship for China Shipping

1/21/2014 9:03:54 AM

Bragging rights for world's largest containership will now go to Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), which has begun building a 19,000-TEU ship, and China Shipping, which plans to operate the ships.    Korea's HHI, the world’s biggest shipbuilder, said it began building the first of five of the containerships on Monday.    The shipowner upgraded the original order for five 18,400-TEU containerships to vessels capable of delivering 600 more containers, making them the  largest containerships ever built.    The first of the ships, measuring 400 meters in length, 58.6 meters in width and 30.5 meters in depth, is scheduled to be handed over by November. The remaining four containerships are slated to be delivered by the end of the first quarter of 2015.    American Shipper

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