ZCIS delivers first of LNG series to MSC

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Last week, MSCCargo took delivery of its 11,480 teu container vessel MSC LEILA built by the Zhoushan Changhong International Shipyard (ZCIS).

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The new ship is the first of ten ‘CIMC ORIC 11500 LNG’-type sisters that the Chinese yard will build for MSC in 2025 and 2026. MSC ordered these vessels in early 2023 for a reported price of around $120m per unit.

For the Swiss-Italian ocean carrier, the series from ZCIS will add to ten similarly sized ‘SDARI 11000 LNG’ type ships that New Times Shipyard is scheduled to deliver over roughly the same time frame.

The ten ‘CIMC ORIC 11500 LNG’ ships will each have a single type-C LNG fuel tank. While CIMC did not disclose the tank’s exact capacity, the ship designers said that it was “large enough” for the ship to complete a full round trip on Asia-Europe or Asia-North America loops.

This delivery brings MSC’s active LNG fleet close to 50 units – more than a quarter of all currently LNG-powered Container Ships in terms of vessel count.

In terms of TEU capacity, the global LNG fleet is now approaching a 7% market share, while LNG-fueled Container Ships make up over 56% of the current global orderbook, as Alphaliner reported last month.

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Source: Alphaliner