NOL orders eight 10,000-TEU ships for APL
Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines said today it is close to finalizing an order for eight 10,000-TEU vessels from an unnamed South Korean shipyard in a deal worth about $1 billion.
The ships, scheduled to be delivered in 2011, will be the largest ever deployed by NOL’s ocean carrier subsidiary APL and have been slated for the Asia/Europe route.
NOL said each of the vessels would have a designed speed of more than 26 knots, which will make them some of the fastest containerships in operation by today’s standards.
NOL orders eight 10,000-TEU ships for APL
