Biggest ship handed over

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), which is one of South Korea’s leading shipbuilding groups, and Oslo-based DNV – the world’s largest Classification Society – have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further the development of autonomous ships.

The ZIM SAMMY OFER is the first of the ten LNG-powered 15,000 TEU vessels under a long-term chartering agreement between ZIM and Seaspan Corporation.

Atlas Corp, which controls Seaspan, has entered into a definitive S&P Agreement with Poseidon Acquisition Corp (a consortium of affiliates of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, affiliates of the Washington Family, Atlas Board Chairman David Sokol, and Ocean Network Express Pte Ltd) under which Poseidon will acquire Atlas in an all-cash transaction of around Can$10.9B

Samsung Heavy industries has ordered Cavotec PowerAMPReel ShorePower connection systems for integration into each of three container ships it is building for Evergreen, Seaspan and Capital

Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd has announced that DNV GL has issued an Approval In Principle (AIP) to MOL and Samsung Heavy Industries for their Bow Wind Shield designed for ultra-large container carriers

Evergreen Marine Corp has entered into an agreement with Shoei Kisen Kaisha today to charter twelve 11,000 TEU class containerships