The Seatrade Maritime Podcast is joined by analysts from Maritime Strategies International to take a look at the outlook for containers, tankers, dry bulk, and shipbuilding in the second half the year.
Taiwan-based shipping line Evergreen is planning a massive fleet expansion plan and ordering twenty-four 16,000 teu methanol dual-fuelled containerships at a total cost of up to $5 billion.
Three Shanghai-based shipbuilding yards under China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), Jiangnan Shipyard, Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding and Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding have bagged 63 newbuilding orders in the first half of this year.
The US Congress approved a US International Development Finance Corp (DFC) plan to allocate a $125 million loan to Syros island-based ONEX Shipyards which is working to relaunch Elefsis Shipyard located at Elefsina, west of Piraeus.
ADNOC Logistics and Services took delivery of a newbuild VLCC named Hafeet last month.
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