30! Container ship bill, here it comes!

recently, after Maersk, Dafei, MSC, ONE and other shipping companies announced or rumored to order container ships, Haproth, the world's fifth largest container shipping company, finally could not bear to order new ships. (1 billion $! The Norwegian ship king also entered, and another wave of box ship orders poured into Chinese shipyards.;52 container ship orders! Why do ship kings collectively abandon methanol and choose LNG?)

, Hapg-Lloyd is making inquiries with shipyards to order up to 30 LNG dual-fuel container ships. This order may reach a value of up to US $5.4 billion.

to be more specific, some brokers said that Hapg-Lloyd is looking to order 10 container ships of 15000TEU class and 10 container ships of 8000TEU class. Each type of ship also includes an alternative order of 5 ships each, which means that the maximum number may reach 30.

another broker said Hapg-Lloyd was seeking a plan for six ships of each type plus four alternative orders. According to this statement, the order is only 20 ships at most.

such as Sindh Maritime Network previously in 《shipping industry starting to shift?", due to various reasons, a number of container ships, including Maersk, and independent container shipowners, have recently chosen LNG fuel solutions.

, Hapg-Lloyd will also choose LNG for this new ship order, but there is news from the shipyard that Hapg-Lloyd is also asking the shipyard for a methanol fuel plan.

if the LNG scheme is chosen, the current price of a new ship for a 15000TEU container ship is about $0.22 billion per ship, while the cost of an 8000TEU container ship is $0.14 billion per ship.

this means that if Hapg-Lloyd finally chooses to order 15 ships, the order will be as high as $5.4 billion!

Clarkson shows that a total of 146 container ship orders have been generated worldwide so far this year. The total number of container ships currently ordered is about 694. The capacity of new ship orders accounts for about 18% of the capacity of the existing fleet.