These two days, a "China with South Korea's long-awaited billions of shipbuilding orders" news scraper. Shanghai City Commission by letter yesterday confirmed that the CMA CGM group, recently respectively Hudong Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company signed a letter of intent to build a super large container ship orders, a total of nine TEU ship 22 thousand double fuel container ships, each ship cost up to $160 million, nine ships total order amount of about 9 billion 600 million yuan. These super large container ships became orders for the first batch of super large container ships since the third quarter of 2015 and 22 months later, marking the beginning of a revival of the international shipbuilding market.
The new ship will be delivered from late 2019 to 2020, and will become the world's largest container ship. Previously, the world's largest container ship orders is 21 thousand TEU Container ship built by Samsung Heavy industries. It is reported that South Korea's Samsung, Hyundai and Daewoo shipbuilding, China Hudong Zhonghua group, Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding companies have participated in the competition, and ultimately, Hudong Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding with comprehensive advantages to win orders.