Wan Hai orders 50,000 containers amid shortage
Wan Hai Lines Ltd has purchased 50,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit containers from China International Marine Containers Ltd at a cost of US$141.73 million amid a global container shortage, the company said in a filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange on Monday.
The average price of the containers would be US$2,835 per unit, Wan Hai said.
The company expects to receive the containers from the second quarter onward, Wan Hai spokeswoman Laura Su (蘇麗梅) told the Taipei Times by telephone yesterday.
Most of the new containers would be 40-foot high-cube containers, one of the most commonly used containers for ocean freight, Su said.