On March 26, Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, and China Shipbuilding Trading Co., Ltd. and Seaspan Corporation signed a contract for the construction of three 15500TEU container ships in the form of a cloud contract.

This is another breakthrough project recently harvested by Hudong Zhonghua. The addition of a world-class partner to Hudong Zhonghua’s “Circle of Friends” has further consolidated its “leading” position in the field of container ship construction in China.

Seaspan Corporation is the world’s largest independent container shipowner. It currently has 132 container ships with a total capacity of 1.143 million containers. This 15500TEU container ship project has a total of 6 vessels, 3 vessels each being built by Hudong Zhonghua and Jiangnan Shipbuilding under China Shipbuilding Corporation. This is the first time that Hudong Zhonghua has cooperated with Seaspan.

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With its outstanding construction performance and strong construction strength, like other world-class customers, the shipowner has also given Hudong Zhonghua the responsibility of building the first ship, which reflects Hudong Zhonghua’s role in large containers. The core competitiveness of the shipping field has been continuously improved.

This type of ship is 366 meters long, 51 meters wide, 30.2 meters deep, and has a service speed of 22.0 knots. It is built in accordance with Tier 111 specifications and is equipped with a hybrid desulfurization tower device. Hudong Zhonghua has completely independent intellectual property rights, adopts the world’s latest green environmental protection, high efficiency, energy-saving, safety and other technical designs, optimized linear, large-diameter propellers and energy-saving ducts so that the performance indicators of the ship have reached the international advanced level.