The Ha Long Shipbuilding Company on January 30 handed over a 53,000-tonne cargo ship to its United Kingdom’s partner, MUHR Maritime Pte.

The cargo ship, named Anne Kjersti, will make its maiden voyage to Singapore on January 31.

The ship is the ninth in a series of ten 53,000 tonne-vessels that Ha Long Shipbuilding Company was building for foreign partners. It is 190m long and 32.26m wide and capable of moving at 14 nautical miles per hour.

The company will complete the last vessel destined for a Thai cargo company in the second quarter of 2013.-VNA