Maersk Line, the world’s biggest container-shipping operator by
capacity, is completing an order of 10 container megaships from Korea’s
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. worth more than $1.5
billion, two people directly involved with the matter said.
It will be the first time since 2011 that Maersk Line, a unit of the
Danish shipping and oil conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, returns to
the market for ships of this size. Back then, it placed an order with
DSME for 20 so-called Triple-E ships, which carry in excess of 18,000
containers each. The last two vessels from that order will be delivered
to Maersk by July.
