Gianluigi Aponte has taken MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company’s container ship newbuilding orderbook beyond $20bn with its latest deal in China.
The world’s largest liner company has returned to Hengli Heavy Industry and ordered 10 LNG dual-fuelled 24,000-teu boxships, according to shipbuilding brokers.
MSC is said to be paying about $230m each for the ultra-large boxships.
