K Line orders four fuel-efficient car carriers

Mon 30 Dec 2013, 08:46 GMT

K Line orders four fuel-efficient car carriers

New order follows the recently confirmed contract to build four next generation car carrier vessels.

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (K Line) has announced that it has decided to order four additional next generation car carrier vessels on top of its recent four-vessel shipbuilding contracts placed with Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co. Ltd. and Japan Marine United Corporation.

In total, each company will be building four new K Line next generation car carriers, respectively, with delivery starting in 2015 and continuing up until the first quarter of 2017.

"By adding this series of eight new ships with better stability of the vessel and better fuel efficiency, we continue to deliver value added efficiency and capability of handling an even wider variety of cargo mix to assure our services successfully meet the needs of our valued customers in order to be best suited for not only passenger cars but also other RoRo cargoes," K Line said in a statement.

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