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HII And South Korea’s Hyundai Agree To Jointly Bid For Navy Auxiliary Ships

HII And South Korea’s Hyundai Agree To Jointly Bid For Navy Auxiliary Ships
HD Hyundai and HII signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on cooperation for the construction of commercial and naval vessels during the APEC 2025 conference in South Korea on Oct. 26. The signing ceremony was attended by Joo Won-ho, President of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ Naval & Special Ship Business Unit, and Eric Chewning, Executive Vice President of Maritime Systems and Corporate Strategy at HII (third and fourth from the left in the photo). (Photo: HII)

HII [HII] and South Korea’s HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) over the weekend signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) to start “deeper collaboration” between the firms, including jointly bidding on U.S. Navy auxiliary shipbuilding programs. This moves the two shipbuilders another step closer to cooperative building after they first in April signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities to work together on accelerating commercial and defense ship production (Defense Daily, April 7). HII and HD Hyundai said the…

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