MPC Container Ships AS announces initial fleet list
MPC Container Ships AS (‘The Company’) announced today that it has acquired seven container vessels. The fleet consists of the 2007 and 2008 built sister ships AS Laetitia and AS Laguna (966 TEU), the 2009 built Rickmers Malaysia (1,300 TEU, to be renamed AS Fortuna), the 2004 built Rio Taku (2,556 TEU), the 2003 built sister ships AS Carinthia and Cardonia(2,824 TEU) and a further 2007 built vessel of 2,100 TEU. Five of the vessels have already been taken over, the remaining two are scheduled for delivery by end of June 2017. The Company’s investment for this fleet totaled USD 38 million.