Many 400,000 dwt sisters to "Vale Brasil" completed / nearing completion

[Mats]

(i) "Vale China", the first 400,000 dwt VLOC built in China, is now at sea:
http://www.eworldship.com/news/201110/2011103184048774.html

There was also a picture in Newsclippings yesterday.

Several sisters are being churned out as well, including "Vale Dongjiakou":
http://www.eworldship.com/news/201111/201111784359698.html


(ii) "Berge Everest" of 388,000 dwt seems to be completed now as well:
http://citizen.hld.gov.cn/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=63795


(iii) STX has also delivered "Vale Beijing" of 400,000 dwt, which again has a slightly different design than the ones built at DSME and in China:
http://www.stx.co.kr/FrontEN/PR/PR_00100_01.aspx?L=RQ2&IDX=NTI30



(iv) Several identical sisters to "Vale Brasil" are also being completed at DSME, including "Vale Rio de Janeiro" and "Vale Italia":
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/showallphotos.aspx?imo=9572329
http://gcaptain.com/vale-takes-delivery-400000-ton?31377

[Tuomas Romu]

Holy necropost, Batman!

Does anyone have any information why quite many Valemax ships have been renamed recently, having the prefix "Vale" replaced with "Ore" or "Sea"? I can't seem to find any news regarding this (only about the ships taken over by Shandong Shipping).

See the list of ships at the Wikipedia article, authored by yours truly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valemax