 ICBC, which would later hand over the vessels to China Marchants Energy Shipping, announced that six of its ships would be built by the Chinese privately owned shipyard Yangzijian Shipbuilding while the remaining four would be awarded to Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding.The first of the thirty Chinese-built second-generation "Valemax" vessels, "Yuan He Hai", was delivered on 11 January 2018 and the last one of the series, "Yuan Qian Hai", in January 2020.In December 2016, the Japanese shipping company NS United ordered a single 400,000DWT very large ore carrier from Japan Marine United after signing a 25-year contract with Vale.