Samsung Heavy Industries
Type | Public |
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Traded as | KRX: 010140 |
Industry | Heavy equipment |
Founded | 5 August 1974 |
Headquarters | Seocho Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea |
Key people | Dae-young Park : Vice Chairman and CEO |
Products | Shipbuilding, Offshore plant, Wind power, Electric power & control systems and Engineering & Infrastructure |
Revenue | US$ 12.7 billion (2012)[1] |
Net income | US$ 0.7 billion (2012)[1] |
Total assets | US$ 14.6 billion (2012)[1] |
Total equity | US$ 4.6 billion (2012)[1] |
Owner(s) |
Samsung Electronics 17.62% National Pension Service 5.04% Korea Investment and Securities 5.00% (as of 18 July 2011)[2] |
Employees | 12,481[3] (March 2009) |
Parent | Samsung Group |
Website | Samsung Heavy Industries |
Samsung Heavy Industries or SHI (Korean: μΌμ±μ€κ³΅μ ) is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea. A core subsidiary of the Samsung Group, South Korea's largest conglomerate, SHI's main focus is on constructing ships, offshore floaters, gantry cranes, digital devices for ships, and other construction and engineering concerns.
SHI operates manufacturing facilities at home and abroad, including ship block fabrication factories in Ningbo and Rongcheng, China. The Geoje Shipyard in particular, SHI's largest shipyard in South Korea, boasts the highest dock turnover rate in the world. The largest of the three docks, Dock No. 3, is 640 meters long, 97.5 meters wide, and 13 meters deep. Mostly ultra-large ships are built at this dock, having the world's highest production efficiency with yearly dock turnover rate of 10 and the launch of 30 ships per year.[4]
SHI specializes in the building of high added-value and special purpose vessels, including LNG carriers, off-shore related vessels, oil drilling ships, FPSO/FSO's, ultra Large container ships and Arctic shuttle tankers. In recent times SHI has concentrated on LNG tankers and drillships, for which it is the market leader.
History
Samsung Heavy Industries was established in 1974, when the company's Changwon plant was opened. SHI soon purchased Woojin, followed by the construction of Geoje shipbuilding facilities and merger with Daesung Heavy Industries.
Samsung Shipbuilding and Daesung Heavy Industries were merged under Samsung Heavy Industries in 1983. Since then, it has put efforts in the introduction of new technologies and development of products, while expanding the business area into heavy equipment and construction.
Since the 21st century, SHI began to build LNG and large passenger ships in earnest, and exported shipbuilding technologies to the United States. In 2009, SHI was contracted to build a new residential cruise ship named Utopia, which will be the largest passenger ship ever assembled in Asia.[5]
See also
- Economy of South Korea
- List of Korean companies
- List of Korea-related topics
- Seocho Samsung Town
- Samsung Heavy Industries Rugby Club
References
- β 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Samsung Heavy Industries (010140:Korean Stock Exchange)". businessweek.com. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
- β "Daum stock data: Samsung Heavy Industries" (in Korean). Daum.net. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- β Welcome to Samsung Heavy Industries
- β μΌμ±μ€κ³΅μ ννμ΄μ§
- β "A Cruise That Never Ends". Forbes. 1 December 2009. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
External links
- Samsung Heavy Industries β website
- Samsung Heavy Industries, Power&Control Systems Division website
- Samsung Global website
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