GEOJE, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) –Companies, labor unions and municipalities are joining forces in a bid to revive a struggling industry and win orders for large shipyards in Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province. According to shipbuilding industry watchers and Geoje on Mar 6, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and Samsung Heavy Industries, which suffered a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and its two local rivals — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. and Samsung Heavy Industries Co. — are estimated to have recovered last year from their worst-ever performance the previous year, industry sources said Monday. But their improved earnings may have come from their [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A series of new shipbuilding orders in recent weeks have raised hopes of recovery in South Korea’s troubled shipbuilding industry, boosted by rising oil prices and a global supply shortage of new ships. Samsung Heavy Industries Co. said this week that it had won a US$230 million deal to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The brutal job-cutting in South Korea’s shipbuilding industry is expected to continue into this year, with the nation’s three largest shipbuilders expected to slash more than 4,000 jobs, according to industry sources Thursday. South Korean shipbuilders have been under serious financial strain since the 2008 global economic crisis amid [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s major shipyards have to pay off or refinance a combined 2.22 trillion won (US$1.89 billion) worth of corporate bonds due next year amid concerns over their worsening financial status, industry sources said Thursday. According to the sources, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., one of the country’s [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Some 3,000 employees have quit their jobs from South Korea’s top three shipbuilders in the third quarter of the year as the industry underwent extensive restructuring programs to cope with global oversupply and low demand amid a global economic slowdown, industry sources said Monday. The country’s three biggest shipyards [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent report by McKinsey & Company that Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) is least likely to survive among the big three shipbuilding companies has brought about strong opposition from DSME. DSME, Hyundai Heavy Industries, and Samsung Heavy Industries retained McKinsey as a consultant back in June, to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Workers at the country’s major shipbuilders will stage a joint strike this week, demanding that tough restructuring moves currently underway be scrapped. According to the sources, unionized workers at the country’s Big Three shipyards — Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. and Samsung Heavy Industries [...]
GEOJE, South Korea, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The prolonged struggles of Korea’s shipbuilding industry are affecting the housing market in Geoje, a city in South Gyeongsang Province. Geoje is made up of a number of islands just off the coast of Busan, and it is also the main hub for the two major shipbuilding [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Overseas operations of South Korea’s cash-strapped shipyards struggled with massive debts last year amid a protracted slump in the global shipbuilding industry, industry data showed Sunday. The combined debts of 34 overseas subsidiaries of the three major shipyards — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. [...]