The Zim Lines, Israel’s national shipping company, is enlarging its fleet of specialized cargo carriers despite the worldwide shipping slump. But it is doing so with caution by buying rather than building new vessels although the price of new tonnage is down.
The company recently purchased two conventional cargo ships built in Gdansk, Poland in 1973, for Israel’s citrus export trade. The 12,000 deadweight ton vessels have been modified at the Haifa Shipyards to carry uncrated cars, refrigerated cargo and 1,000 tons of liquid cargo on their return trips from Europe. Outward, each has a capacity of 180,000 crates of citrus. They were re-named Tapuz and Hadar.
Zim has also purchased a 60,000 deadweight ton dry bulk carrier, the first of a series of ships intended to replace the company’s older 30,000 ton bulk carriers.
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