Taiwan - A new high has been reached for containership prices.

Last month Taiwan’s Evergreen contracted for eleven LNG dual-fuel 24,000 TEU ships, the orders split between South Korea and China with Hanwha Ocean taking six vessels and CSSC Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) the remainder.

Hanwha Ocean reported to the Korea Stock Exchange that the six ships were costing $267.3m each, something analysts at Alphaliner believe is the highest price ever agreed upon for the construction of a container vessel. On a Per-TEU basis, it works out at $11,138 per . . .