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Taiwan shipyard delivers 3 container vessels to German shipper
Apr 26, 2010, 9:28 GMT
Taipei - Taiwan's China Shipbuilding Corp on Monday delivered three container ships ordered by the German shipping line Peter Dohle Schiffahrts-KG.
Chairman Cheng Wen-long and the German firm's president, Jochen Dohle, presided over a christening ceremony attended by Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou at the shipyard in the southern Taiwan port city of Kaohsiung.
The shipbuilder handed over two vessels with a capacity of 6,600 standard-sized containers and one vessel able to carry 4,200 standard-sized containers. The event marked the first time that the shipbuilder has delivered three vessels at one time.
The Hamburg-based firm has ordered a total of six of the larger vessels and six of the smaller vessels. So far, the Taiwan builder has delivered three of each.
The shipbuilder, a former loss-making state enterprise, has made profits since it was privatized at the end of 2008.
Last year, it built 11 container ships and was scheduled to build 16 vessels in 2010.
The company said it has received 44 orders from domestic and foreign shipping lines, enough to keep it busy until 2013.
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