Evergreen Marine Corp. (Taiwan) Ltd through its subsidiary EMA is buying seven units of 5,900 teu class container vessels and 16 units of 3,100 teu class container vessels. The company reported the acquisitions on January 27 but didn’t specify in its announcement the delivery date of the 23 units in total.
The new orders for the seven units are placed at Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and for the 16 units at CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Company Limited.
Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding has won an order of 7 units of 5,900 teu class container vessels. The unit price is between $67m and $82m per vessel, or the total transaction price is between $469m and $574m.
Evergreen Marine Corp. has also placed an order at CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Company Limited for 16 units of 3,100 teu class container vessels.
The unit price is between $46m and $56m per vessel, or the total transaction price is between $736m and $896m.
Both orders were placed on January 27.
Evergreen Group started its business operation with Evergreen Marine Corporation (EMC), which was established on 1 September 1968.
Nowadays, Evergreen operates a fleet of more than 200 full-containerships and has developed a service network across five continents.
