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Zhonggu Shipping to Add Boxships

May 20, 2016

 Shanghai's Zhonggu Shipping may buy 3,398-TEU Stadt Aachen, that was up for sale for US$7.1 million, say local media reports.

 
Zhonggu Shipping earlier stated that it plans to acquire a handful of vessels this year, all of which will start operations between June and August.
 
The Chinese company announced in the middle of March that it has acquired two containerships from Singapore and Germany.
 
Additionally, last month the company signed a shipbuilding contract with CSSC-affiliated Zhoushan Changhong International Shipyard for the construction of a 2,500-TEU ship.
 
Xia Guoqing, General Manager, Zhang Jiangang, vice general manager of Zhonggu Shipping, and Dai Jiming, president of Changhong International Shipyard, attended the contact signing ceremony.
 
This being built 2500 TEU container ship has a total length 179.9 meters, 32.18 meters width, depth of 16 meters, classified by China Classification Society, will start the construction in the coming months.  
 
The Group has more than 60 ships, over one million tons capacity, comprehensive coverage of domestic routes in coastal regions, the total container throughput in the ports in the country of over 300 million TEU.
 

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