COPENHAGEN : Danish shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk is looking at vessels built in India and is in talks with multiple shipyards to build container vessels with capacities of about 3,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a senior executive said.
Maersk, among the world’s largest container shipping lines, has initiated talks with Indian shipyards to build these smaller container vessels, Amdi Krogh, the carrier’s global head of ocean assets partnering, told Business Standard.
The shipping line, which on Friday became the first international player to order containers from an Indian manufacturer — DCM Containers — is also looking to source a larger share of its container demand from India, Krogh said.
He did not specify details of the discussions with shipyards or container manufacturers. The longer-term goal is to build bigger vessels in India once capacity expands, Krogh said.
