Quartet feeders for Ostsee

Aker Ostsee in Germany, a subsidiary of Aker Yards, has been awarded a contract to build four container vessels for Reederei Gebr. Winter GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. The vessels are of the newly developed type Aker CS 1700. The total contract value is approximately EUR 120 million ($155 million). The vessels are due for delivery in the second and third quarter of 2008.

The 24,000DWT feeders will be 182m long, 25.2m wide and have a total container capacity of 1,698TEU with 330FEU reefer sockets. With a 2-stroke main engine output of 16,600 kW, they will have a service speed of 20.2 knots.

This latest contract brings the order book for the combined Aker Ostsee shipyards in Wismar and Rostock-Warnemünde to a total of 33 container ships consisting of 1,700, 2,500 and 2,700 TEU vessels.