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China Steel Express orders four bulkers at CSBC and Japan Marine United

China Steel Express orders four bulkers at CSBC and Japan Marine United
Taiwan’s China Steel Express Corporation (CSE) has placed orders for four large bulker carriers at a total price of $187m with shipbuilders CSBC Corp and Japan Marine United.

Taiwanese state-owned CSBC will build two of the 208,000-dwt ships for CSE at a price of $47.5m apiece, while Japan Marine United will build two similar ships at a price of $46m apiece.

CSBC and Japan Marine United are scheduled to deliver the newbuildings by end-June 2018 and end-June 2019, respectively, according to CSE’s announcement to the Taipei Exchange.