According to the trade winds reported that German owners Carl Buttner and Korea shipbuilding industry signed a letter of intent to build, will be ordered 6 38000 DWT chemical tanker IMO II coating, the new ship will be delivered in succession from July 2018 to September 2019.
The new ship specific price has not been announced, but market participants expect that each new ship cost about $40 million, the total value of the order will reach $240 million.
If the construction contract signed, this batch of chemicals will become the biggest ship ship Carl Buttner's fleet. It will also mark the entry of Carl Buttner into a new trading market. Before the company has been in Europe and the Baltic region offshore operations of small oil tankers, currently a total of 9 oil tanker fleet capacity, in 13500 DWT to 24000 dwt.
Known as a bulk cargo ship built shipyard, Hantong ship heavy industry has been focused on building Handymax and Supramax bulk carrier. In 2014, Korea shipbuilding industry received the first orders for shipping in chemical tankers, built 8 ships stainless steel chemicalcargoship, each ship cost about $54 million. At present, Han Tong ship heavy industry has delivered 4 new ships.
According to Clarkson's data show that the current total amount of orders for the South Korean shipbuilding capacity of a total of 33 vessels. A manager of Han Tong heavy industry said that 60% of the new ship in the construction of oil tankers.