SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top power plant builder Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. said Wednesday that it has signed a deal with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) to provide equipment for wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs). Under the deal, Doosan Heavy plans to offer a total of 156 [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) will develop an energy storage system (ESS) for ships in cooperation with a group comprising a local company and research institutes, the shipbuilder said Friday. Within the next three years, the group plans to develop a lithium battery-based ESS that will be [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) said Wednesday it will develop cybersecurity technologies for remote autonomous ships and smart ships. To that end, the shipbuilder will team up with local cybersecurity companies, including maritime cybersecurity startup DSLAP Company, and Korea University by 2022, it said. The project was [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) said Monday that it has signed a 1.9 trillion won (US$ 1.7 billion) deal to build a hull of an offshore facility. The deal is part of a total 2.6 trillion won project to construct a floating production, storage and offloading vessel [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said Thursday that it has opened a center to control the shipbuilding process at its shipyards. The center at its Okpo shipyard on Geoje Island, 398 kilometers south of Seoul, is made up of two parts — the smart production management center and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said Thursday that it has succeeded in a ship-to-ship liquefied natural gas (LNG) loading test for the first time in the global shipbuilding industry. The ship-to-ship LNG loading test was aimed at streamlining procedures to verify the safety of newly built LNG carriers’ [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said Tuesday it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) welding quality monitoring robot for the first time in the shipbuilding industry. The robot inspects the welded parts of ships and offshore plants with a 3-D modeling program and carries out automated welding quality [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said Monday that it has won approval for its floating facility to supply both electricity and LNG to an onshore facility, from ABS, a U.S. ship quality assurance and risk management company. The facility, Floating Storage Power Plant LNG Cargo Handling System (FSPP [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said Wednesday it has won approval for its design for its upgraded floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility from ABS, a U.S. ship quality assurance and risk management company. The approval in principle for Daewoo Shipbuilder’s design for the LNG offshore facility by [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said Tuesday it has developed an AI robot for metalworking in the construction of ships for the first time in the world. The AI hot working robot, called Goknuri, is now used to shape steel plates into curved ones at the front and [...]