Larger On-Demand Car Carriers: Breaking the 10,000 CEU Barrier
Larger On-Demand Car Carriers: Breaking the 10,000 CEU Barrier
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South Korean shipping company Hyundai Glovis announced that it will build the largest car carriers in the world. The 12 ships break the 10,000 TEU barrier in car shipping and will accommodate 10,800 cars and trucks, as became clear from a communication from the shipping company to the stock exchange in Seoul.
Paul Gomelette
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Recently, car transportation by sea has accelerated the pace of growth in this sector. In the automotive sector, China is also increasingly developing into the “factory of the world”, causing a significant increase in the volume of cars transported between Asia and the West, a development to which car transport companies are responding by increasingly increasing the volume of cars. Built ships, as in container transport.
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For a long time, players from Scandinavia have taken the lead in this increase in volume. For example, Norwegian shipping company Höegh Autoliners delivered ships of 8,500 and 9,100 EEU respectively in 2015 and 2021, taking the record from “Faust”, the ship with which Norwegian-Swedish shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen launched its giant car shipping operation. Industry in 2008. era.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen announced the next step last August by ordering “Shaper” class vessels that will provide space for 9,350 cars. These ships should be delivered from the second half of 2026. This means that the first “Shaper” ship of the Norwegian-Swedish shipping company will become the largest in the world for some time to come, because the now announced Hyundai Glovis ships should enter service in the fall of 2027.
Together, the South Korean shipping company’s 12 new ships will cost $1.84 billion and will be “dual-fuel”: they will be suitable for sailing on liquefied natural gas. Wallenius Wilhelmsen chose to use methanol for the “Shaper” ships, with the option of also making them suitable for ammonia if sufficient supplies of this fuel were available.
