Asiatic Lloyd has returned to its favoured Chinese shipyard for a pair of boxship newbuilds. 

Brokers are reporting the privately held German shipping line has ordered two 7,100 teu vessels at Dalian Shipbuilding. No price has been revealed. 

Asiatic Lloyd is twin-headquartered in Singapore-and Hamburg, operating as part of the Bunnemann family’s AL Group, which also has interests in tankers, car carriers and dry bulk.

2025 is proving to be another bumper year for global containership orders with 2.3m teu of newbuilds contracted in the first half of the year, potentially on track to overhaul 2024’s full-year total of 4.4m teu, which was the second-highest annual total in history.