China Shipbuilding (600150.SH) subsidiary signs contract to build 20 307,000-ton VLCC crude oil tankers

Zhitongcaijing · 2d ago

Zhitong Finance App News, China Shipping (600150.SH) issued an announcement. Recently, Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Group Co., Ltd. (“Dalian Shipbuilding”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, and China Shipbuilding Industry & Trade Co., Ltd. and COSCO SHIPPING Energy Transportation Co., Ltd. (“COSCO Marine”), a subsidiary of COSCO SHIPPING Energy Transportation Co., Ltd. (“COSCO Marine”), a subsidiary of COSCO SHIPPING, signed a total of 2.0707,000-ton class ships CC Type crude oil tanker construction contract. Contract amount: Domestic RMB 3,793 billion (tax included), cross-border RMB 13.425 billion (tax excluded).

Dalian Shipbuilding is the first shipbuilding company in China to build a VLCC, and has maintained a long-term competitive advantage in the VLCC construction market. The number of ships signed this time is large, and batch acceptance is conducive to leveraging Dalian's shipbuilding efficiency advantages, and at the same time further consolidating Dalian Shipbuilding's market-leading position in the VLCC field. The ship ordered this time is a next-generation VLCC flagship model independently developed and designed by Dalian Shipbuilding to closely follow the green energy development direction of international shipping, meet the latest global environmental design guidelines, and be independently developed and designed. The performance indicators of this ship model have reached world-class standards, and in core fields such as overall performance, environmental performance, and operational reliability, they have all reached the leading level of the same type of ship in the world.