South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s largest shipbuilder, introduced a brand new milestone Tuesday with the latest supply of its 2,000th ship.

The milestone was reached with the supply of the Ocean BlackLion, the final of 4 ultra-deepwater drillships for Diamond Offshore.

Hyundai Heavy opened its doorways with a bang within the early 1970’s by concurrently finishing shipyard development and delivering two 266,000 DWT VLCCs simply two years after breaking floor alongside a stretch of seaside in Ulsan. Since then, the shipyard has grown to turn into the world’s largest shipyard, setting quite a few world data within the course of. In 2002, HHI turned the primary shipyard to succeed in 1,000 ship deliveries. Later in 2012, the yard additionally turned the primary to build up 100 million gross tons in ship manufacturing.

Today, the gross tonnage of the two,000 ships constructed at HHI quantities to 126 million, twice the gross tonnage of complete ships constructed final yr worldwide, HHI says.

“Today, we wrote a new chapter in the global shipbuilding history by delivering the 2,000th ship, said Choi Kil-seon, chairman & CEO of HHI. “As we have been over the past four decades, we will continue to stand firm as the global leader in the shipbuilding industry with tireless innovation and shipbuilding method improvement for the coming decades.”

HHI notes that the highest 4 most-delivered ships on the yard are containerships (583), bulk carriers (357), tankers (232) and VLCCs (147), with most orders coming from Greece (254), adopted by Germany (238), Japan (120) and Denmark (101).

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