Hanjin adds capacity replacing two smaller ships with bigger newbuilds

HANJIN Shipping has named its two latest 6,500-TEU vessels, the Hanjin Mumbai and Hanjin Shenzhen, which were built at the Hyundai Heavy Industries yards in Ulsan, South Korea.

The vessels are the sixth and seventh containerships in a series of eight in the 6,500-TEU class currently being built by HHI. The two larger newbuilds are intended to replace the 5,500-TEU ships now on Hanjin's Far East Europe Express (FEX) service.

The shipping line said in a statement that "this supply of more vessel space from Asia to Europe service will contribute to stable transportation of cargo".

The port rotation for the FEX service is: Xingang, Gwangyang, Busan, Yantian, Singapore, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Felixstowe, Singapore, Kaohsiung, returning to Xingang

Hanjin Shipping said that the environmentally-friendly feature of the two new 80,800-ton vessels are its engines, with an output of 93,000 HP that "consume the same amount of fuel in spite of speed change and also release no air pollution by completely burning the fuel."