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Two new ships for Seaspan Corp
Containerships from Chinese and Korean shipyards delivered the same
day
Seaspan Corporation announced yesterday the delivery of its 28th and
29th vessels, the COSCO Yingkou and the CSCL Long Beach.
The 3500 TEU COSCO Yingkou was constructed by Zhejiang Shipbuilding
Co. Ltd. in China and was delivered on July 5, 2007, approximately
three and a half weeks ahead of its contractual delivery date. The
COSCO Yingkou is the second of ten Seaspan vessels to be chartered to
COSCO Container Lines Co., Ltd. ("Coscon"), a subsidiary of China
COSCO Holdings Company Limited ("China Cosco"). China Cosco is a
publicly traded container transport company and is the world's
seventh-largest liner shipping company in terms of capacity. The COSCO
Yingkou is on charter to Coscon for 12 years.
The 9600 TEU CSCL Long Beach, which was built by Samsung Heavy
Industries Co. Ltd. in Korea, was also delivered on July 5, 2007,
approximately eight weeks ahead of its contractual delivery date. The
CSCL Long Beach is chartered to China Shipping Container Lines (Asia)
Co., Ltd. ("CSCL"), a subsidiary of China Shipping Container Lines
Co., Ltd., for 12 years. This is the 14th vessel of 22 vessels to be
chartered by Seaspan to CSCL.
"We are pleased to have once again taken delivery of our new buildings
ahead of schedule and, consistent with our strategy of providing
shareholders with stable and growing cash flow, each of these new
vessels has a 12-year time charter," said Gerry Wang, Chief Executive
Officer of Seaspan. "With significant cash flow secured under
long-term contracts of over $4.8 billion and an average time charter
duration of about 8 years for our operating fleet and about 11 years
for vessels contracted to purchase, Seaspan will grow distributable
cash as we take delivery of each new container vessel on our modern
fleet of 55 vessels."
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