MSC IN A NEW 6 BOXSHIPS WORTH $158 MILLION DEAL

Swiss-headquartered container line Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) is set to increase its owned fleet by six according to broking reports.

Clarksons, Allied and data firm VesselsValue are all reporting that MSC has bought six post-panamax boxships controlled by Germany’s Zeaborn in an en bloc deal worth around $158m.

The vessels are the Hyundai Samho-built (2006) 8,200 teu ER Tianping, ER Tianshan, ER Tokyo and ER Texas along with the Hyundai Ulsan-built (2004) 7,849 teu pair ER Vancouver and ER Yokohama.

All of the vessels, with the exception of ER Tianping, are already on charter to MSC according to Alphaliner. Splash has reached out to MSC to verify the reports, which if confirmed will see MSC’s owned fleet reach 200 ships according to VesselsValue data.

23,000 CMA CGM CONTAINER SHIP ENTERS MARKET

Ten days on and CMA CGM is still struggling to get all its systems back online but still the Mega Container Ship CMA CGM Jacques Saade Enters Service. 

First 23,000 TEU container vessel in the world to be powered by LNG

The CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE has joined CMA CGM Group’s fleet thus becoming the largest LNG-powered container ship in the world.

CMA CGM has made the symbolic choice of naming its new flagship after its founder, Jacques Saadé, a visionary and entrepreneur.

The joining of the fleet of the CMA CGM Jacques Saadé was marked by a first-of-its-kind digital naming ceremony that saw the shipyard’s representatives in Shanghai and CMA CGM Group’s management in Marseille share an emotional landmark moment in their common history.