South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has won an order worth 481.2 billion Korean won ($417.61 million) to build three container ships, the company said on Tuesday.
The deal, made with an unidentified Asian shipper, will expire on July 31 in 2015, the shipbuilder said in a regulatory filing. ($1=1152.2750 Korean won) (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin and Ju-min Park; Editing by Clarence Fernandez).
DSME boasts the world's leading technology and competitiveness in building ships such as LNG carriers (including LNG-RV), Ultra Large Container Vessels (ULCV), Ultra Large Crude Carriers (ULCC), Ultra Large Ore Carriers (ULOC), large LPG carriers, and car carriers.
The company has been keeping up with the rapidly changing passenger ship market by building high-speed ferries and luxury ocean liners. DSME provides various support such as training and materials as well as building and delivering cutting edge submarines, destroyers and auxiliary ships as part of many turnkey projects for the navy. It has been utilizing 900-ton goliath cranes at No.1 and No. 2 docks to maximize the design and production efficiency and has the world's four largest floating docks.