Korean shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries Corp.-Philippines has booked 56 new building projects for its shipyard at Subic’s Redondo Peninsula, putting projected sales for all its vessel orders at $4.9 billion.
The 56 vessels in Hanjin’s order book includes 34 bulkers that would range from 175,000 to 250,000 deadweight tons (DWT); 16 container ships with capacities ranging from 3,600 to 12,800 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs); and six tankers, two of which will be ultra-large crude containers with a capacity of 320,000 DWT.