Work has begun on two container ships capable of carrying 22,000 Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding for French ocean carrier CMA CGM . The vessels, which have the same dimensions as the line's Antoine de Saint Exupery and Jean Mermoz , can hold nine four-foot refrigerated containers, and when operational will run on liquified natural gas. The vessels are part of a fleet of nine ships to be built by Shanghai -based Jiangnan Shipyard and China State Shipbuilding Corporation , following an agreement signed by Jiangnan Shipyard in 2017 .
Work has begun on two container ships capable of carrying 22,000 TEU for French ocean carrier CMA CGM. The vessels, which have the same dimensions as the line's Antoine de Saint Exupery and Jean Mermoz, can hold 2,200 four-foot refrigerated containers, and when operational will run on liquified natural gas. The vessels are part of a fleet of nine ships to be built by Shanghai-based Jiangnan Shipyard and Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, following an agreement signed by China State Shipbuilding Corporation in 2017.