Samsung Heavy wins $440m icebreakers order

Samsung Heavy Industries said Tuesday that it won a $440-million order from an European company to build three arctic tankers.

The carriers will be delivered in the first half of 2017 to a European company, which declined to be specified.

The company won an order for three icebreakers from the Russian state-run shipping firm Sovcomflot in 2005.

With the latest deal, the company has won a total of $5.9 billion shipbuilding orders in sum as of Oct. 7 this year.

The company expects more shipbuilding orders to come.

“We are also expecting to win another orders such as LNG carriers, container ships and offshore oil platforms lat this year,” the shipbuilder said.
Source: Korea Tmes