Deliveries include a bulk carrier for a Chinese-Tanzanian partnership, a transshipment vessel for operation in Guinea on behalf of a Canadian owner, and a car carrier to support South Korea's automobile distribution industry. A Swiss company has placed an order for an LNG dual-fuel vehicle carrier. Lastly, a Singapore-based customer has placed orders for new bulk carriers.
Swiss shipping company Sallaum Lines has placed an order for a new pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) to be built by the China Merchants Jinling Shipyard.
The ship will belong to the same series as two PCTCs that China's Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry will build for Sallaum.
The PCTC will have an LOA of 199.99 metres, a beam of 38 metres, an air draught of 46 metres, and a capacity of 8,600 CEUs. Although she will have the same general dimensions as those of Sallaum's earlier vessels, she will each be able to carry up to 1,100 more vehicles compared to her predecessors.
The CSL Group has taken delivery of Wontanara, the first of five transhipment shuttle vessels commissioned for the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea.
Designed by CSL and built at CSSC Chengxi Shipbuilding in China, the vessel is intended to transport bulk iron ore between river terminals and offshore carriers.
CSL stated that it managed the project from concept design through engineering and construction oversight before the vessel's delivery on July 28.
China's Shandong Xinneng Shipbuilding has delivered the final vessel in a series of four bulk carriers ordered by Chinese-Tanzanian partnership the Zijin Mining Group.
With the delivery of the final ship, all four vessels in the series, have now been put into operation out of the Kigoma Freight Terminal.
Like series lead ship Jinhang No 1 (pictured), the newbuild can operate in inland waters, having been designed and built to address a shortage of cargo ships capable of navigating inland routes throughout Africa.
Korea Ocean Business Corporation (KOBC) took delivery of a new pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) on Tuesday, July 21.
Glovis Nova was built by China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) subsidiary Guangzhou Shipyard International as the latest example of an existing series of PCTCs.
Design work on the vessel was undertaken by CSSC subsidiary Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute.
Seacon Shipping Group has announced that its Singapore subsidiary entered into two shipbuilding contracts with Tsuneishi Group Zhoushan Shipbuilding to acquire two bulk carriers for $66 million.
The deal involves the construction of a 26,700 GT bulk carrier scheduled for completion in 2028, and a vessel of identical tonnage set for 2030.
Each vessel costs $33 million, with payments structured across five instalments starting with $3.3 million upon contract signing and concluding with $19.8 million upon delivery.
