Compagnie Polynesienne de Transport Maritime (CPTM) of Tahiti has returned to China’s Huanghai Shipbuilding Co with an order for a unique hybrid passenger-cargo ship.
TradeWinds is told that the vessel, to be named Aranui 6, is tentatively scheduled for delivery in early 2022.
While details on what form the ship will take have yet to be released, well placed sources say that it will be slightly larger than CPTM’s current 11,500-gt passenger-cargo ship Aranui V (built 2015), which was also built at Huanghai.
