News

21-07-2010
Evergreen - VLCS vessels ordered

Taiwanese carrier Evergreen has ordered 10 VLCS vessels (Very Large Container Ships) with Korean wharf Samsung Heavy Industries. The carrier is herewith the 1^st container line from the global top 20 who
is ordering new buildings.

The capacity of these vessels will vary between 9.200 TEU and 9.600 TEU depending on the configuration. They will be able to load 18 container rows on deck. The new ships will have a speed of 24.5 knots. Consequently Evergreen is not lifting the option to have vessels with reduced speed and benefit from possible bunker savings.

Green ship

Nevertheless Evergreen emphasizes that within their philosophy of “Greenship” the vessels are programmed to be  environmentally friendly and economize on fuel consumption. Last week rumours were spread that Evergreen also wanted to built extra vessels in their home country Taiwan.

Vessels costing

However the projected costs of million 80 us dollar per vessel for Taiwanese ship builder CSCB was not feasible to them. The buildings ordered with Samsung will be costing us dollar 103 million per vessel. These ships should become operational between May 2012 and November 2013.