来自香港媒体的报导 Vessels up to 13,000 TEU capacity would help meet growing demand OOCL may place an order for huge container ships, each of which would have almost 50 percent more capacity than any ship in its fleet, a senior executive told a Hong Kong newspaper. The Hong Kong-based carrier is contemplating such an order because of the expected long-term growth in demand in Europe for Asian exports. Stephen Ng Siu-kow, OOCL’s director of corporate planning, said the carrier was looking to bolster its fleet, the South China Morning Post reported. OOCL is No. 12 on the JOC list of Top 15 Container Fleet Operators. "We are looking at 8,000 TEUs and up to 13,000 TEUs, but we have not made any decisions on placing orders for these vessels yet,” Ng told the newspaper. "We have a team of experts who are constantly exploring opportunities and regularly meet shipyards and other vendors to review new technologies, discuss industry issues, as well as explore possible new buildings," he said. The largest vessels now sailing in the OOCL fleet are 16 ships capable of carrying 8,063 20-foot equivalent container units. They were delivered from the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea at a total cost of $1 billion. The last in the series, OOCL Luxembourg, was christened last April. The Hong Kong-based container line also has ordered six 8,888-TEU containerships from Shanghai's Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in 2007 at an overall price of $723 million. Ng said these ships would be delivered between 2011 and 2013. The current price of a 13,000-TEU container ship ordered from a South Korean shipyard is about $125 million. The ships can only be deployed on Asia-Europe services because U.S. ports cannot yet handle ships as large as 13,000 TEUs. While container volumes on intra-Asian trade routes are growing, ships with capacities of 13,000 TEUs are too large for the trade. Analysts at Macquarie Research and Goldman Sachs are forecasting a shortage of container ship capacity in 2012 as the construction and delivery of vessels lags the expected growth in container volumes. Ng said economic uncertainty in Europe would continue to have an adverse impact on Asian companies because the depreciation of the euro against Asian currencies made exports more expensive. "We are cautiously optimistic that there will be growth of 5 to 6 percent in trade volumes" on Asia-Europe next year compared with this year, Ng said. This would "imply that our trade volumes will be more or less back to the levels of 2008." Vessels up to 13,000 TEU capacity would help meet growing demand Ng said there were brighter opportunities on intra-Asian trades. Container volumes have grown significantly this year due to the impact of free trade agreements between China and ASEAN countries. "Next year we will focus on the lucrative intra-Asia routes and add services or capacity where necessary," Ng said. "We expect 2011 demand will continue to grow but at a slightly slower pace, due to the slowing down of GDP and monetary tightening in Asia, especially in China." 看完原文,简单说就是红梅花打量购置 8x13000teu 货柜船增加运力 这八条13000teu的船假设购置成功,将会是红梅花现役8063teu货柜船运力的约1.5倍 (8063 teu , 实际大约可以装 6800 teu , 13000 teu ,实际可装 12000 teu ) 这八条船目前正在跟三星造船洽谈中,每艘造价1~1.25亿美金 红梅花的执行长认为,货柜班轮在未来亚洲输往欧洲的货物比重会持续上升 船舶大型化无可避免,但是此型船只能用在东亚区大港口,相对南亚/中东 港口受到的限制较多,此型船短期内还是无法进入此地区展开服务 . 最後一段....红梅花更看好亚洲区间市场的迅猛成长 但是中国市场的成长趋缓是一大隐忧 阅 ~ 英文原文文章啃起来别有一番风味 (无误) 高雄港表示:红梅花租的码头停不进这型怪物 洲际六表示:来租啊 (抠鼻) 三星表示:这型订单已经多到我不想接了.... CSBC表示:核心设备外购的结果,这型订单我也拿不到 (冏)~ --

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