Slow Week for Dry Bulk Newbuilds

Bluetech 42 bulker design ordered by Navibulgar

 A couple of orders to report in dry sector this week with Santoku Senpaku adding further Kamsarmax to their orderbook, this time for two firm 82,000 DWT bulk carriers at Tsuneishi Zosen with delivery in 2017,
according to Clarkson’s Hellas S&P Weekly Bulletin. Navibulgar has also contracted four firm plus two option 42,300 DWT Ice 1C Handymax. Delivery is due in 2016 with pricing understood to be just above USD 24 Mill per vessel. In tankers, Sungdong has added two firm widebeam 74.5k DWT LR1 to their orderbook with an order from Nisshin.

Delivery is from the end of 2016. In gas, KSS Line announced that they added a third vessel to their series of 84,000 CBM VLGCs at HHI, with delivery of the latest vessel in mid-2016. According to the Bulletin, looking at containers, DSME is reported to had won an order for two 19,000 TEU container vessels from Bank of Comms Financial Leasing, with delivery of both units in 2017.

At the other end of the size scale, Daesun won two separate orders each for two firm 1,000 TEU container feeders – from Nam Sung Shipping and Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG). All four vessels are planned for delivery in 2016 with pricing in excess of USD 19.5 Mill, the Bulletin reads.