Largest-ever shipbuilding contract at Hyundai

摘要

The world's largest shipyard, Hyundai Heavy Industries, in Ulsan, continues to chalk up impressive orders, its newest being a September contract for an established customer, the French operator, CMA-CGM. This is for eight of some of the large container liners ever ordered; they are of a massive 11,400TEU capacity, and the contract, worth US$1.2 billion, is being claimed as the largest-ever single shipbuilding commission. This order means that today, Hyundai has a total of 21 mega container liners of over 10,000TEU on its order book. Some of these will be constructed at the Samho yard on the west coast (the former Halla yard).