South Korean shipbuilders, reached about $65bn of new order in 2011, are to go into aggressive sales with a total of around $75bn of order target in 2012, bigger by 15.4% than last year's performance.
Hyundai Heavy Industries, STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, SPP Shipbuilding, etc., aim higher new order than that from last year, while Samsung HI, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, etc., lower their targets than 2011 new orders.
Hyundai set increased targets for its Shipbuilding and Offshore & Engineering divisions with Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries to $23.6bn, up by 19.2% from $19.8bn of 2011 target. This year's target is even larger than last year's new order, $20.1bn.
STX (including STX Europe, STX Dalian) secured only $8.2bn new order in 2011, despite its target of $12.8bn. It made an aggressive target of $15bn this year, as well.
Meanwhile, Samsung's 2012 target is set for $12.5bn, $1bn larger than 2011 target of $11.5bn, however, it is smaller than last year's total new order of $15bn.
Daewoo is known to settle the same target as last year, $11bn. It contracted about $14.8bn, 35% bigger than target, of newbuilding in 2011.
While, commercial ship market is expected to suffer from depression, small-and-medium size yards are to make an aggressive move with overall target of $10bn this year.
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, inked a total of about $2bn of new order in 2011, targets $3.2bn for 2012 and SPP Shipbuilding, won about $1.4bn, makes a target of $1.8bn for this year.
Daehan Shipbuilding aims $1.4bn of new order, at most, Samjin Shipbuilding Industries and Dae Sun Shipbuilding & Engineering set $1bn and $600m of targets each for 2012.
Meanwhile, Sungdong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has currently confirmed its normalization procedure by creditor group but its business plans for 2012 has yet to be decided. Considering last year's performance of $2.2bn, however, the yard would seal around $2.5bn orders this year.
Published : January 5, 2012
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