Cosco-Belgium

Cosco Container Lines today received the 13,386 teu neo-overpanamax vessel COSCO FRANCE. The 366m ship is the second unit in a series of eight identical sisters that Coscon is to receive from the Chinese Nantong Cosco KHI Ship Engineering Company (aka NACKS), a joint venture between Cosco and the Japanese Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The ship follows her earlier sister COSCO BELGIUM, delivered in March. Full story here: wp.me/p3nDLn-dJ

On February 28, the Christening ceremony of 13,386-TEU container ship MV. COSCO BELGIUM was grandly held at Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co.,Ltd (NACKS), the company news release said. MV. COSCO BELGIUM is the first of a series of eight 13,386 TEU vessels being built for COSCON by NACKS. These ships will be the largest and modern Eco-designed containerships ever built by a Chinese shipyard and are also COSCON’s largest vessels. The COSCO BELGIUM will be deployed on the COSCON CKYH Joint North Europe Express Service 3 (NE3).