Taiwan’s Chinese Maritime Transport (CMT) is moving forward with its dry bulk newbuilding project at a domestic yard. The owner of 13 vessels spread across capesize and newcastlemax segments has settled to contract two more 210,000 dwt units at CSBC Corporation. The newbuilds, costing about $77.5m each, will feature scrubbers and likely be delivered between 2027 and 2028, according to shipbuilding sources. The move follows a brace of newcastlemaxes booked for construction at CSBC last August with options secured for two more newbuilds. Prior to this four-ship order, CMT, which owns and operates its bulker fleet through Singapore and Hong Kong subsidiaries, contracted newcastlemax specialist builder Qingdao Beihai for four vessels in 2021, including the 2024-built China Vista (pictured). googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); }); TagsTaiwan