BIGGER AND BIGGER BOXSHIPS

In the port of Tianjin, serving the capital city of Beijing, COSCO Pacific, Tianjin Port and AP Moller will set up a container terminal by 2007 that will handle 2.1mTEU/year.

The first 10,000TEU capacity containerships were ordered by COSCO in January this year and now China Shipping Container Line (CSCL) has confirmed that it is in talks with Samsung Heavy Industries of Korea over the first 12,000TEU capacity vessels.