TheKong Kong owner said the ships will now be ready in the first half of 2015, comparedto the fourth quarter of 2014 previously.

Thevessels are the first in a series of four 8,888-teu box vessels ordered atHudong-Zhongua in 2007 for $484.8m.

The original delivery date was late in 2010, but the shippingcrisis intervened.

In 2012, completion was put back to 2014.

All other terms of the contracts are unchanged.

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