The 1 supertanker and five bulk carriers signed this time, with a total cost of about 508.2 million US dollars, will be delivered one after another from June 2009.
Li, Chairman and President of China Merchants Group and General Manager of China Shipbuilding Industry Group, attended the signing ceremony.
According to China Merchants Group, this contract is the largest new shipbuilding investment since the establishment of China Merchants Group 135, which reflects China Merchants Group's determination and commitment to develop the core industries of energy and transportation and support China Merchants Steamship to become bigger and stronger. Since the beginning of this year, China Merchants Steamship has purchased seven large oil tankers and seven bulk carriers from Dalian Shipbuilding Industry and Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Industry in four batches, with a contract value equivalent to more than 9 billion yuan.
Up to now, China Merchants Steamship has purchased and built 7 oil tankers (including VLCC5) and 7 bulk carriers with 6.5438+0.8 million tons since its listing. Together with the orders for five oil tankers and five LNG carriers that have been fulfilled before the listing of the company, the projects in the company's fund-raising investment plan have been basically implemented, and the bulk carrier fleet will also achieve leap-forward development. By 20 1 1, the company's fleet capacity will double, with five large LNG carriers with a total capacity of 736,000 cubic meters.
China Merchants Steamship is realizing the leap-forward development of capital and business scale. The company's development strategy is defined as: focusing on the development of China's imported energy transportation business, and striving to develop its fleet into a state-owned large-scale energy transportation professional fleet with more international competitiveness, domestic leadership, reasonable structure, complementary ship types and sustained growth through three to five years' efforts.
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