News / CSSC wins record order for 16 box ships for CMA CGM

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CMA CGM has confirmed orders for 16 large containerships at state-owned China State Shipbuilding Corp.

The order is for a dozen methanol dual-fuelled 15,000 teu ships, at $175m each, and four LNG dual-fuelled at 23,000 teu costing $175m each, and at $3.1bn is the larhgest order yet for the shipbuilding group.

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding will build the 23,000 teu ships and the 15,000 teu vessels will be equally split between Jiangnan Shipyard and Dalian Shipbuilding.

The carrier’s chairman, Rodolphe Saadé, in China last week, ...