Seaspan Acquires 6th 10K TEU Boxship
Seaspan Corporation announced today that it accepted delivery of a 10000 TEU containership, the MOL Breeze. The new containership, which was constructed at Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., is Seaspan's sixth 10000 TEU SAVER design containership delivered in 2014. This is the ninth 10000 TEU vessel using Seaspan's fuel-efficient SAVER design constructed at Yangzijiang.
The MOL Breeze will commence an eight-year, fixed-rate time charter with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. ("MOL"). The ship is the third of a total of five 10000 TEU SAVER design vessels, and the ninth of a total of eleven vessels, to be chartered by Seaspan to MOL. The delivery of the MOL Breeze expands the Company's operating fleet to 77 vessels.