Japanese owner NYK has revealed a charter deal for eight huge boxships ordered at Japan Marine United (JMU).
The company said the 14,000-teu ships will be delivered from JMU’s Kure yard from February 2016 to January 2018.
They will replace existing vessels in Asian and European trades, including four 13,000-teu units chartered in from OOCL.
NYK did not name the company behind the order, but a spokesperson told TradeWinds that it is another Japanese shipping company, not a domestic fund as brokers had speculated.
The Panama-flagged vessels “will have improved fuel efficiency and cargo loadability among today’s container ships of similar size,” it added.
