Hanjin orders five 10,000-TEU vessels

Hanjin orders five 10,000-TEU vessels    Hanjin Shipping said Thursday it has placed an order of five 10,000-TEU containerships with Samsung Heavy Industries.
   The five vessels ordered are scheduled for successive deployment from February 2010 on Hanjin’s transpacific trade. The Korean steamship line said in a statement that the order of super-sized containerships is in line with Hanjin’s mid-to-long-term strategy to lead the global shipping market increasingly dominated by large vessels.
   Hanjin ordered eight 6,500-TEU vessels in 2003 through 2004 and started deploying them on the Asia/Europe trade from the second half of 2006. A series of 8,000-TEU containerships began to be deployed on the transpacific trade from the second half of 2005. The carrier operates 80 containerships on 60 lanes worldwide.