Having contracted a deal for six Offshore Supply Vessels (OSVs) on May 15, China’s Fujian Crown Ocean Shipbuilding Industry won a contract for construction of a 200-person capacity passenger vessel from a subsidiary of Century Golden Resources Group on May 29.
Particularly, the Chinese builder was able to win successive orders, backed by supports from various banks, for instance, it recently signed up for credit line of CNY 700m with the Export-Import Bank of China (CEXIM).
The first vessel of the six OSVs won earlier this month and the passenger ship are slated for delivery in 2014. Apart from this, Crown Ocean is having newbuilding negotiations, expected to ink other newbuilding deals soon.