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  • Oct 3, 2013
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Hyundai Heavy Industries

Founded in 1947, Hyundai was a South Korean conglomerate with activities spanning retailing, shipbuilding, car and truck making and property. It was broken up after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and effectively reduced to container shipping services, elevator manufacture and tourism. And Hyundai Motor Group, Hyundai Department Store Group, Hyundai Heavy Industries Group and Hyundai Development are no longer connected to Hyundai Group.

9 Jul 2013

Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's biggest shipbuilder, plans to raise prices as demand for fuel-efficient vessels helps it skirt the global supply glut hurting Chinese yards.

5:23AM
12 Jan 2013

The mainland's shipbuilders are set to spark a price war in the oil-rig market.

4:02AM
29 Sep 2012

Japanese and South Korean industrial production fell more than economists estimated last month as slowdowns in China and Europe weighed on exports, building the case for more monetary easing.

2:32AM
29 Sep 2012

Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's biggest shipbuilder, has made a preliminary bid for an US$890 million stake in planemaker Korea Aerospace Industries to pare its reliance on the shrinking...

3:35AM
6 Oct 2005

Hong Kong's harbour should be deep enough to accommodate the next generation of container ships, but their huge size will strain local port facilities.

3:09AM
12 Apr 1999

Hellespont Steamship, a joint venture between Greek shipowner Papachristidis and Majestic Shipping of the United States, is in talks with three South Korean shipyards involving VLCC (very large...

12:30AM

Korea Marine Transport Co and Hyundai Merchant Marine Co plan to unify their Korea-Indonesia services into a joint, fixed-day weekly container service from April 7.

2:52AM

South Korea's Halla Engineering & Heavy Industries Co says it has received four shipbuilding orders worth US$128 million from two international shipping lines.

12:26PM

Hyundai Corp and Hyundai Heavy Industries have jointly won a US$30 million order to export cranes to Yantian International Container Terminals of China. Hyundai Heavy Industries would be in charge...

4:14AM

Malaysia's Konsortium Perkapalan says subsidiary PNSL has placed orders worth M$134 million (about HK$415.2 million) for two 73,000 deadweight tonne (dwt) bulk carriers from Hyundai Heavy...

8:02PM

British technology group Weir has won contracts to supply cargo-handling systems for three liquefied gas ships being built at Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan shipyard.


The company...

10:58AM

THE New Dalian Shipyard in China has completed its first container ship and launched a 150,000 deadweight tonne bulk carrier, according to the China Daily.


The 52,000 dwt container...

7:19PM

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