On April 23, SUMEC Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shipping Company") and Hong Kong shipowner Wah Kwong Shipping Holdings Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Wah Kwong Shipping") signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Nanjing SUMEC Building, and the two parties signed two Crown 63 PLUS newbuilding contracts at the same time. Zhao Shiqing, Executive Chairman of Huaguang Shipping, Zheng Zhong, General Manager of the Operation and Management Department of SUMEC Group, Zhou Qiang, Deputy General Manager of the Strategic Investment Department of SUMEC Group (presiding over the work), He Jun, Chairman of the Shipping Company, and Xu Gang, Vice Chairman of the Shipping Company, attended the ceremony.
He Jun extended a warm welcome to Zhao Shiqing and his entourage. He said that Wah Kwong Shipping is a shipping company with a glorious history, and the shipping company is very happy to participate in the development process of Wah Kwong Shipping. The two companies have previously worked very successfully on newbuilding and will be strategically cooperating in a wider range of areas from today.
Zhao Shiqing expressed his gratitude to the shipping company for its warm reception. He said that the two sides have been cooperating in many fields such as newbuilding and manufacturing supervision. The four ships that have been delivered have performed well and are highly recognized by the market, and it is hoped that the two sides will strengthen exchanges in ship design optimization and improve again on the original basis.
Signed a contract for 2 Crown 63 PLUS newbuildings
Signed a strategic cooperation agreement
Wah Kwong Shipping is one of the first shipowners of the shipping company's version 3.0 Crown 63 PLUS, and the batch of 4 ships has been well received by the market after being delivered and put into operation. Therefore, Huaguang Shipping once again chose a shipping company to continue to build two ships of the same series. In this cooperation, the two parties will discuss the upgrade of the ship's type, and further improve the performance of the ship through measures such as installing sails and shaft hair, reducing the overall energy consumption by 3.5%, and striving to reach the level of EEDI stage 4. The signing of this strategic cooperation agreement marks that the cooperation between the two sides will open a new chapter and reach a new height.
In the future, the two parties will carry out close and in-depth cooperation in the upgrading and research and development, on-site supervision, ship leasing and overseas market development of crown ship types, jointly explore the new direction of green development of shipbuilding and shipping, and work together to create a better future.
Wah Kwong Shipping is a family-owned business founded in Hong Kong in 1952 by Mr. Zhao Congyan, one of the four major shipping kings in Hong Kong. In addition to managing its own vessels, Wah Kwong also focuses on providing one-stop shipping services including new ship supervision, business management, ship technical management, ship sale and purchase consulting and surveys for third-party shipowners. The types of vessels managed by Wah Kwong include various types of dry bulk carriers, VLCC, Aframax and MR tankers, tugboats, container ships, small liquefied gas carriers, ultra-large VLGC, chemical tankers, LNG bunkering vessels and methanol bunkering vessels. Today, Wah Kwong has also set up branches in Shenzhen, London and Genoa, Italy, to provide more convenient ship management services to third-party shipowner customers.