German owner TB Marine-Hamburg has signed shipbuilding contract with Nantong-based Huatai Heavy Industry for the construction of eight chemical tankers.

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Delivery will start in the second half of 2017, however other details of the contract were not revealed.

Huatai Heavy Industry completed a restructuring and changed ownership in August 2014. It is engaged in both shipbuilding and fabricating offshore steel structures.

Source: splash247.com