Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) said during a conference call on December 12 that the company received a 91.5 billion won ($69.8 million) order for an LPG tanker from an Oceania country, not disclosing the name of the nation. The ship will be built in a shipyard in the southern port city of Ulsan and delivered to its owner in the first half of 2025.
According to KSOE, the shipbuilding group won a total of 193 ships worth $23 billion in 2022, achieving 132.4 percent of its initial annual contract goal of $17.4 billion.