Recently, Jiangsu Soho Chuangke Shipbuilding and Jiangsu Ocean Shipping successfully signed an order for four 3,000 TEU container vessels, which is a renewed cooperation between the two parties following the signing of four 63,500 DWT bulk carriers in 2024.
This series of 3000TEU container vessels is the second generation of Chittagong type green, energy-saving and environment-friendly container vessels newly developed by Shanghai Ship Research and Design Institute (SDARI). The vessel has an overall length of 185.9 meters, with a speed of 19 knots and is seaworthy in unlimited navigation area. It adopts S-Bow low resistance line shape, CFD optimization and high efficiency rudder + energy saving duct design, which significantly reduces fuel consumption and carbon emission.
This type of vessel has achieved all-round breakthroughs in green environmental protection, meeting the IMO Tier Ⅲ emission standards, equipped with a scrubbing system, USCG ballast water treatment and AMP system, and its EEDI reaching the third stage requirements, achieving a balance between high efficiency energy saving and ecological protection. This is also an important step for Jiangsu Soho Chuangke Shipbuilding to actively explore new areas of vessel types such as container vessels and new energy vessels in accordance with the requirements of the holding group, based on the traditional 63,500 DWT bulk carriers, 50,000 DWT tankers and various offshore engineering vessel businesses.
Jiangsu Soho Chuangke Shipbuilding Formerly known as Sainty Shipbuilding (Yangzhou), Suntian Shipbuilding was originally a subsidiary of Jiangsu Sainty Shipbuilding was originally a third-tier company of Jiangsu Guoxin Investment Group. which was restructured from Jiangsu Sainty Shipbuilding, established in 2003. In 2016, it became China’s first listed shipbuilding company to go bankrupt due to bankruptcy and reorganization in the wake of severe losses, and then Jiangsu Guoxin Investment Group rescued Sunshine Shipbuilding, which was facing delisting, with a capital injection in exchange for shares.
In March 2017, Sainty Shipbuilding (Yangzhou) was renamed Jiangsu Guoxin Co., Ltd. and announced its “withdrawing from the shipbuilding industry”. In January 2020, Sainty Assets Management delivered its first new ship since its establishment. In 2024, Sainty Machinery, Sainty Minmetals and Sainty Assets of angsu Soho Holdings Group completed the merger and reorganization and were renamed as Soho Chuangke Group, and Yangzhou Sunshine Shipbuilding restarted its shipbiliding business.
Sainty Shipbuilding (Yangzhou) is reported to have received several new orders after successful reorganization. In July 2024, Soho Chuangke released a news that Sainty Shipbuilding (Yangzhou) signed a contract with domestic and international shipowners such as Sea Traders, China Development Bank Financial Leasing (CDB Leasing) and Jiangsu Ocean Shipping for the construction of a total of 10 63,500 DWT BCs, with a contract value of approximately RMB 2.3 billion. And undertook 8 64,000 DWT bulk carriers ordered by Jiangsu Ocean Shipping and China Development Bank Financial Leasing (CDB Leasing), with a total price of more than 260 million US dollars.