Hyundai Heavy Industries wins order for New Zealand naval ship

Hyundai Heavy Industries wins order for New Zealand naval ship. July. 26, 2016 07:02. by 김성규기자 sunggyu@donga.com.

Hyundai Heavy Industries has won order from the New Zealand Navy for the first time in 30 years. The two sides signed a contract Monday on the construction of a military supply ship with a displacement of 23,000 tons in Wellington, New Zealand. In attendance at the signing ceremony were Kim Jeong-hwan, chief operating officer of HHI Shipbuilding, and New Zealand Secretary of Defence Helene Quilter.

The ship that HHI signed the contract this time is the successor of the "Endeavor" with a displacement of 12,000 tons, which the Korean shipbuilder supplied to the New Zealand Navy in 1987.

HHI fiercely competed with dockyards specializing in defense contracts from Germany and Spain to win the contract after submitting its bid in June last year. The naval ship will measure 166 meters, and have a max cruising speed of 31.4 kilometers per hour. It will be capable of operating in the Antarctic waters, since it comes with the capability to endure ice and extremely cold weather.