Hapag-Lloyd has doubled its container ship order, commissioning a South Korean shipyard to build six more mega-vessels.
Each of the container ships will have a capacity of more than 23,500 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). That’s the same size as the six ultra-large ships Hapag-Lloyd ordered at the end of 2020 from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering.
The order does not come as a surprise. Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen said on the ocean carrier’s first-quarter earnings call that the
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