SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., South Korea’s top shipbuilder, is likely to have a lengthy standoff with its labor union over this year’s wage deal, industry watchers said Sunday, adding a burden to its already struggling business. Hyundai Heavy has held 16 rounds of wage negotiations with the union since [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., a troubled shipbuilder in South Korea, said Tuesday that it has delivered a drill ship, the third of five offshore facilities scheduled for this year. Daewoo Shipbuilding won a 620 billion-won (US$539 million) deal to build the drill ship for Transocean of the United [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean shipbuilders, led by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., are estimated to have clinched a record number of new shipbuilding orders in the first half of the year, with their combined tally more than doubling from a year earlier, industry data showed Monday. Hyundai Heavy and other local shipyards [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Heavy Industries Co., a major South Korea shipyard, said Monday that it has clinched a US$100 million deal to build two LNG carriers. Under the deal with South Korean shipper Korea Line Corp., Samsung Heavy will build the ships by December 2019, the company said. The ships, which [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers of two major shipbuilders in South Korea are set on a collision course with top managers over how to restructure the embattled companies reeling from snowballing losses amid a longstanding business slump, sources said Friday. The labor union of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) is [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, South Korea’s No. 2 shipbuilder, is pushing for a massive restructuring drive next month, including the sale of assets worth up to 400 billion won (US$339.1 million), as it struggles to recover from huge losses, industry sources said Monday. Assets likely to be sold [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major shipyards, led by Hyundai Heavy Industries, are expected to log record losses this year as they struggle with money-losing projects to build offshore facilities and a decline in new orders, industry sources said Monday. The country’s big three shipbuilders — Hyundai Heavy, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean shipbuilders, led by industry leader Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., have secured the largest amount of new orders in the first six months of the year to retain the top slot, while the global shipbuilding industry saw new orders halve, industry data showed Friday. According to the data [...]
ULSAN, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court on Thursday ruled in favor of the Hyundai Heavy Industries‘ union, ordering the company to count regular bonuses as base pay. Ten unionized workers at the world’s largest shipbuilder had filed a lawsuit against the company early last year, claiming regularly paid bonuses should be included [...]