Danish giant big fan of China

AP Moller-Maersk AS will order 25 vessels from Chinese shipbuilders including Qingdao Qianjin Shipbuilding within the next 12 months, the China Business News reported.

Citing an unnamed source from Maersk’s China office, the newspaper said that the Danish shipping company signed two agreements last week to buy four 1,800 TEU container ships from Dalian Shipbuilding Industry and four 80 tonne bollard pull tugs from Qingdao Qianjin.

During the last 10 years, A.P.Moller-Maersk has placed orders for 75 new ships in China for about DKK 17.6 billion which makes this company the largest foreign buyer of ships from China.