Mega container ship to join IRI fleet

The first mega container carrier that Iran has ordered will join the country's container fleet in five months.

The first container carrier will enter the fleet of the Islamic Republic of Iran with a stowage capacity of 6,500 TEU containers in the next five months, said the deputy managing director for technical affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, Qassem Nabipour. At the moment, four container carrier vessels with a capacity of 4,900 TEU containers and six vessels with the stowage capacity of 6,500 TEU containers are being built in Korea, the first of which will join the company's fleet in five months. The Korean company will deliver all the 10 vessels currently on order to the company's fleet by December 2008. The company's stowage capacity will reach two million TEU containers per year when all the 10 vessels are added to the fleet, he explained.

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