AP Moller-Maersk AS orders four new product tankers in China

March 3, 2004
AP Moller-Maersk AS, Copenhagen, said it has awarded orders to the Chinese shipyards Dalian New Shipbuilding Ltd. and Guangzhou Shipyard International Co. Ltd. to supply four new product tankers.

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Mar. 3 -- AP Moller-Maersk AS, Copenhagen, said it has awarded orders to the Chinese shipyards Dalian New Shipbuilding Ltd. and Guangzhou Shipyard International Co. Ltd. to supply four new product tankers.

Since 1996 AP Moller-Maersk, the largest foreign buyer of vessels built in China, has ordered 51 ships valued at a total of more than $1.5 billion from Chinese shipyards.