Maersk orders seven ice-class container vessels for Seago Line

New vessels provide Seago Line short-sea and feeder customers with competitive services in the Baltic and North Sea regions, also in the winter

Maersk Line has signed a new building order with COSCO Shipyard Co., Ltd in Zhoushan China. The order is for seven (7) 3,600 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent) container vessels. The vessels will have a length of 200 meters (m), width of 35.2m, and a 10m draft. COSCO Shipyard and Maersk Line have agreed to keep the price confidential.

Maersk Line has placed the order for Seago Line, its fully-owned container shipping line dedicated to short-sea services in Europe and throughout the Mediterranean region. The vessels will be delivered in April – November 2017. The order includes an option for two additional ships to be declared within eight months.

Seago Line will deploy the vessels in the Baltic and North Sea regions. They will replace several container ships, half the size or less of the new buildings. The vessels will sail on marine gas oil (MGO). They are therefore compliant with the SOx (Sulphur oxides) emission limits, which went into force 1 January 2015, creating the ECA (Emission Control Area) zone in Northern Europe.

The order is the first step in the investment programme announced by Maersk Line. Over the next five years USD 15 billion will go into vessel new building, retrofit programme, containers and other equipment. Hereby, Maersk Line will be able to add capacity in line with growth in global container shipping demand as well as replace less efficient chartered tonnage.

“I am very happy to announce this new order and the first in our investment programme. Our strategy is to grow with the market and to do so we need new vessels from 2017,” says Søren Toft, COO in Maersk Line. “We expect to place additional orders during 2015.”

It is the first time, that Maersk Line places a new building order with COSCO Shipyard. It is also the first time the shipyard will build container vessels. However, the Maersk Group has worked with COSCO Shipbuilding Group in the past. Maersk Line also uses the shipyard for vessel retrofits and dry docking.

Seago Line’s geographical scope includes the European region, all countries in the Mediterranean area, Russia and Baltics. It has offices in 25 major countries throughout the region. 400 staff and 67 vessels with a capacity of around 133,000 TEUs makes the container shipping line one of the largest short-sea and feeder operators in Europe. Seago Line was established in 2011 and is a fully-owned subsidiary of Maersk Line.

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