The contract for the newbuilding is worth SGD 265m ($200m) and it is due for delivery in the middle of 2017.
It will be the first ice-class vessel built for MCS, which has three other MPPs, while it is the first time the European owner has cooperated with the Singaporean shipbuilder.
Knut Reinertz, director of MCS, said: “There is a demand for modern ice-class multi-purpose vessels in the market and we believe this state-of-the-art vessel we are building with Keppel Singmarine is ideally suited to meet this need.
“We
