Brief: Eimskip: Contract for building new container vessels in China
25/01/2017 08:59
Jan 25 (Reuters) - Eimskipafélag Íslands hf. EIMS.IC :
* Signs contract for building of two new container vessels with China Shipbuilding Trading
Company Limited and Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard Co. Ltd in China
* Contract price of each vessel is about $32 million and vessels are expected to be
delivered in 2019
* Is working on securing funding of vessels
* Says takes cooperation planned with Royal Arctic Line to new level and signs agreement for
cooperation regarding sharing capacity
* Royal Arctic Line has also signed contract of building one vessel of same type with same
shipyard
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