Beijing: In response to the new
ship scrapping policy issued by the Ministry of Transport at the end of 2013,
Chinese shipping companies have started a new round of fleet update plans.
China COSCO Holdings announced
that it has chosen 41 ships to be scrapped during 2014. Total capacity of the
ships is 2.52m dwt. The decision comes after a series of new orders placed by
the company lately.
In the meantime, China Shipping
Development announced that it will scrap 7 vessels, made up of 2 bulkers and 5
oil tankers totaling 294,000dwt.
“Most of the old vessels are
small tonnage vessels and have high fuel cost, but it requires additional cost
to scrap them, so the shipping companies just suspended the operation of these
ships before the new ship scrapping policy was released, now the companies are
more willing to scrap ships and order new ships with the support of subsidies,”
an official from China National Shiprecycling Association told SinoShip News.
Source:
sino ship news. 20 January 2014
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