LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS group announces an order for 8 bulk carriers...
LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS group (LDA) announces today an order for 8 bulk carriers in China, placed at TIANJIN XINGANG SHIPBUILDING HEAVY INDUSTRY CO. LTD shipyard. This order involves 4 Capesize and 4 Handymax vessels. Deliveries are scheduled in 2013 and 2014. This investment represents about 330 million U.S. dollars.
Capesize Handymax
Length: 292 m Length: 180 m
Width: 45 m Breadth: 30 m
Draft: 18.30 m Draft: 10.50 m
Deadweight: 180,000 t Deadweight: 40,000 t
Speed: 14.5 knots Cranes: 4 x 30 t (filled bins)
Speed: 14 knots
Both types of ships have been optimized to minimize CO2 emissions, compared to existing vessels of equivalent tonnage. The new Capesize design will save approximately 9,300 tons of CO2 per year (and per ship) and the new Handymax design will save 5,000 tons. Additionally the new Handymax design is optimized at 10.50m draft to better serve all ports of Southeast Asia. All vessels will be registered under EU flag.
In line with its counter-cyclical strategy and after having sold a substantial part of its fleet of bulk carriers in the highest markets in 2007 and 2008, LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS group has decided to rebuild its fleet. LDA is confident that today's depressed markets will experience a significant improvement as from 2013.
About LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS group
For over 160 years, LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS (LDA) is a world leader in transportation and logistics for dry bulk. With a fleet of thirty units comprising floating cranes, barges and tugboats, as well as integrated port services, LDA offers a full range of services to its customers in the transport chain.
More recently, LDA has diversified in high value added niches partnerships with leaders in the industry: laying submarine cables with ALCATEL-LUCENT, offshore seismic research with CGGVERITAS, heavy lift transport with AIRBUS INDUSTRIES... Under the brand name FAIMROUNT MARINE, LDA offers many services dedicated to the offshore oil and gas industry.
Finally, LDA arises as a pioneer of the "Motorways of the Sea" concept, ecologically-efficient and economical solution to the transport chain by creating roro and ro-pax lines between France and North Africa, Great Britain or Spain.
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Contact
Mr Antoine PERSON
Company Secretary
+33 1 7038 6117
antoine.person@LDA.fr
