Seaspan receives box ships for COSCO, Hapag-Lloyd

Seaspan receives box ships for COSCO, Hapag-Lloyd    Seaspan Corp. this week received two Panamax containerships destined for charter to COSCO Container Lines and Hapag-Lloyd.
   The 3,500-TEU “COSCO Fuzhou” was delivered on Tuesday from Zhejiang Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in China, about four weeks after its contractual delivery date. The vessel is the first of two Seaspan vessels to be chartered for 12 years to COSCO.
   Arriving about three weeks ahead of schedule on Wednesday, the 4,250-TEU “Rio De Janeiro Express”, built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, is the eighth of nine Seaspan vessels to be chartered to Hapag-Lloyd USA, a subsidiary of Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd.
   Seaspan now has a fleet of 26 containerships chartered to some of the world’s largest liner companies, including A.P. Moller-Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, COSCO Container Lines, and China Shipping. Seaspan’s order book will see 15 more ships delivered over the next three years or so.