Maersk to order 25 vessels from China shipbuilders over next 12 mths

AP Moeller-Maersk AS will order 25 vessels from Chinese shipbuilders including Qingdao Qianjin Shipbuilding Co within the following 12 months, the China Business News reported. Citing a media officer from Maersk’s China office, the newspaper said that the the world’s largest shipping company signed two agreements last week to buy four 1,800 TEU container ships from Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co Ltd and four 80 DWT tugs from Qingdao Qianjin.