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Hyundai Samho’s parent, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, said on Monday that the shipbuilder will build four container vessels with a capacity of 8,400 teu for an unidentified owner in Oceania.
The order is worth 804.9 billion won ($563 million), or about $140.7 million per vessel.
HD Hyundai Samho is expected to deliver these containerships by January 2028.
HD KSOE did not provide further details regarding this order.
Shipbuilding sources said that Evangelos Marinakis-controlled Capital Maritime could be behind this order for four LNG dual-fuel vessels.
Capital is also said to be behind orders for up to 16 more container vessels placed at HD Hyundai Samho and HD Hyundai Mipo.
HD KSOE announced orders for a total of 22 containerships, including these four LNG dual-fuel vessels, worth about 2.53 trillion won.
LNG-fueled containerships
Shipbuilding sources recently also told LNG Prime that Taiwan’s Wan Hai Lines decided to change an order placed for methanol-ready containerships in South Korea to enable the vessels to run on LNG fuel.
The change in order to LNG fuel includes eight methanol dual-fuel ready vessels with a capacity of 16,000 TEU.
Four of these ships will be built by Samsung Heavy and four by HD Hyundai Samho.
Orders for LNG-powered vessels jumped 103 percent to 264 ships last year, driven by the container and car carrier newbuild boom over the last three years, according to classification society DNV.
In 2024, 69 percent of all containership orders were for ships capable of being powered by alternative fuels, driven by cargo owners responding to consumer demands for more sustainable practices and liner companies preparing to replace older tonnage, DNV said.
DNV’s latest data shows that there are now 690 LNG-powered ships in operation and 644 LNG-fueled vessels on order.
According to the data, there were orders for 52 LNG-powered ships in January-March this year.