CULines Invited Customers to Witness Delivery of Newbuilding

On August 27th 2022, the CULines 190TEU container newbuilding “CUL BANGKOK”, was successfully named and delivered at CSSC Whampoa Wenchong Shipyard Guangzhou South Salon point factory. In the ceremony, CULines mainly invited representatives from cargo owners, merchants, E-commerce logistics and shipping agency to witness. Ms Li Bin, CEO from Midea Group international logistics sharing platform, named and cut the ribbon for the newbuilding as the god-mother.
 
Mr Chunsen Zhao, the Director of Standing Committee of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Thailand and Thai-china Cultural Exchange Center; Mr Lijun Nie, the Deputy General Manager of CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Company Limited, together with Mr Wei Ding, the Executive Vice President of CULines jointly attended the ceremony and made the opening speech. Mr Kriengkai Chaisiriwongsuk, the Director of the Port Authority of Thailand sent video blessing for “CUL BANGKOK”.
 
“CUL BANGKOK” is the third BKKMAX container vessel that built and delivered by CULines in cooperation with CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Company Limited. Such vessel type is energy-saving and environmental friendly, convenient and efficient, which is in line with CULines’s management principal of green development. It is one of the most competitive vessel types deployed on Thai Services since it is able to load more containers under berthing limit of Port of Bangkok, which will maximize utilization of vessel capacity.
 
Customer interaction is the main topic of “CUL BANGKOK”’s name and delivery activity as support and collaboration from customers and partners have made great efforts on CULines’s rapid expansion in recent two years. Shipping industry is periodical and future market environment is still fulfilled with challenge and uncertainty that accompanied by global geopolitics and change of economy environment. CULines will therefore, actively expand and optimize capacity structure, coordinate intra-Asia and ocean services and take market situation of both current and medium to long term into consideration, aiming to provide high quality and efficiency services to all customers.

This year, CULines will deliver 4 newbuildings of the same type as “CUL BANGKOK” and 2 2800TEU second-hand vessels in total with five of them have already been delivered successfully, which will enhance the competitiveness of CULines in its Intra-Aisa and medium-range services. After next year, at least 6 newbuildings will successively to be delivered to optimize CULines’s capacity structure in different trading regions. Till next month, the 4 1930TEU vessels that started to be ordered and built in January 2021 will all be delivered. With obvious cost-effective advantages, their participation will play active role in enhancing contribution and to better fight against recent downturn in shipping industry. 

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