NYK adds eight big boxships

The company said the 14,000-teu ships will be delivered from JMU’s Kure yard from February 2016 to January 2018.

They will replace existing vessels in Asian and European trades, including four 13,000-teu units chartered in from OOCL.

NYK did not name the company behind the order, but a spokesperson told TradeWinds that it is another Japanese shipping company, not a domestic fund as brokers had speculated.

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