{"id":83524,"date":"2026-02-10T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipping.einnews.com\/article\/891032094"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:05:42","slug":"maersk-orders-eight-vessels-from-chinese-shipbuilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/maersk-orders-eight-vessels-from-chinese-shipbuilder\/","title":{"rendered":"Maersk orders eight vessels from Chinese shipbuilder"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1709728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1709728\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-opt-id=345745788  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1709728\" src=\"https:\/\/scandasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maersk-735x413.avif\" alt width=\"735\" height=\"413\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1709728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M\u00e6rsk has ordered 8 vessels from Chinese shipyard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Danish shipping group A.P. Moller \u2013 Maersk has ordered eight large container vessels from New Times Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in China. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maersk.com\/news\/articles\/2026\/02\/09\/maersk-orders-eight-large-vessels-deployment-flexibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The agreement was announced<\/a> on 9 February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The ships will form a new series of 18,600 TEU vessels. Maersk said deliveries are scheduled for 2029 and 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Maersk said the vessels are 366 metres long and 58.6 metres wide. It said they are more compact than today\u2019s 400-metre maximum container-ship length.<\/p>\n<p>The ships will have dual-fuel engines, running on bunker fuel or liquefied gas. Maersk said it now has 33 vessels on order, including four due in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\"> <\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; vessels from Chinese shipyard. Danish <span class=\"match\">shipping<\/span> group A.P. Moller \u00e2\u0080\u0093 Maersk &#8230; container vessels from New Times <span class=\"match\">Shipbuilding<\/span> Co. Ltd. in China. The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}