A Number of leading shipping companies, most of which are based in Asia, have taken delivery of new containerships, starting with NYK which has received the 9,040-TEU NYK Orion.
This vessel is the seventh ship delivered to NYK so far in a programme totalling 17 ships each with a capacity of 9,000-9,600 TEU, reports AXS-Alphaliner News.
The NYK Orion will be deployed on the Grand Alliance's Asia-Europe EU 4 loop.
Fellow Japanese shipping giant MOL has also taken delivery of the 8,110-TEU MOL Comfort built at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard. The containership is said to be the fourth out of a series of eight sister ships to be delivered since placing the order in 2004.
All four vessels received have been chartered by APL, including the MOL Comfort, which APL has renamed the APL Finland. She will be deployed on the New World Alliance's Asia-Europe SCX Loop, which is soon to be upgraded to use 8,000-TEU vessels.
German ship owner Martime, acting on behalf of Gebab, has taken delivery of the 2,702-TEU Pandora built by Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems in their Emden site. The ship has been chartered by Hamburg Sud, which will deploy her on the Europe-US-ANZ Trident service under the name Cap Castillo.
Safmarine has taken delivery of the 1,708-TEU Safmarine Bia, the 14th vessel in the Imabari 1700 class. The vessel is expected to join the Maersk Line-Safmarine Salalah-Mombasa (EAF 3) service.
Samudera has added the 1,060-TEU Sinar Banten to its fleet, which was built in Japan by Hakata Zosen for Japanese owners. The Sinar Banten is scheduled to join Samudera's Singapore-Chittagong feeder shuttle (CGX), replacing the 1,034-TEU Phu My.
Bremerhaven's SSW Faehr-und-Spezialschiffbau is due to deliver the second 1,036-TEU vessel of the new SSW-1000 type to German owner Bernd Sibum. The vessel named the Grete Sibum has been chartered for 12 months by Delta Shipping, which plans to rename the ship the Delta Hamburg for deployment on its Rotterdam-Germany-St Petersburg service.
Finally, German owner Vega Reederei has received the Vega Sonja, the last of four 706 TEU newbuildings built by China's Zhejiang Yangfan Shipping Group. She has been chartered by Sinotrans for its Busan-Xingang shuttle service, the report added.
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