Samsung Heavy Industries

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Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
Native name
삼성중공업 (三星重工業)
TypePublic
Short description: Securities exchange operator in South Korea
Korea Exchange
한국거래소
TypeStock exchange
LocationBusan & Seoul, South Korea
Coordinates [ ⚑ ] 35°08′12″N 129°03′53″E / 35.136721°N 129.064746°E / 35.136721; 129.064746 (Busan)
Founded1956; 70 years ago (1956)
Key peopleSohn Byung-doo
(Chairman & CEO)
CurrencySouth Korean won
No. of listings2,445 (as of May 2021)[1]
Market cap₩2,604 trillion KRW ($2.3 trillion USD)[2]
IndicesKOSPI
KOSDAQ
KRX 100
Websitewww.krx.co.kr
eng.krx.co.kr
Samsung Heavy Industries
Hangul
한국거래소
Hanja
韓國去來所
Revised RomanizationHanguk Georaeso
McCune–ReischauerHanguk Kŏraeso

Korea Exchange (KRX, 한국거래소) is the sole securities exchange operator in South Korea . It is headquartered in Busan, and has an office for cash markets and market oversight in Seoul.

History

The Korea Exchange was created through the integration of Korea Stock Exchange (KSE), Korea Futures Exchange and KOSDAQ Stock Market under the Korea Stock & Futures Exchange Act. The securities and derivatives markets of former exchanges are now business divisions of Korea Exchange: the Stock Market Division, KOSDAQ Market Division and Derivatives Market Division. As of Dec 2020, Korea Exchange had 2,409 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of ₩2.3 quadrillion KRW (US$2.1 trillion). The exchange has normal trading sessions from 09:00 am to 03:30 pm on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.[3]

On 22 May 2015, the Korea Exchange joined the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative in an event with the UN-SG Ban Ki-moon in attendance, as well as senior officials from UN Global Compact and UNCTAD.[4]

Traded Instruments

KOSPI Market Division
  • Stocks
  • Bonds
  • Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
  • Exchange-Linked Warrants (ELWs)
  • Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
KOSDAQ Market Division
  • Stocks
Derivatives Market Division
  • Index Instruments: KOSPI 200 Index Futures, KOSTAR Futures, KOSPI 200 Index Options
  • Single Stock Futures
  • Equity Options
  • Interest Rate Instruments: 3-Year KTB (Korea Treasury Bond) Futures, 5-Year KTB Futures, 10-Year KTB Futures
  • Foreign Exchange Instruments: USD Futures, JPY Futures, EUR Futures, USD Options
  • Commodity Instruments: Gold Futures, Mini-gold Futures, Lean Hog Futures

See also

References



IndustryEngineering
Naval engineering
Shipbuilding
Founded5 August 1974; 51 years ago (1974-08-05)
HeadquartersSamsung Town, Seoul, South Korea
Key people
Jin-Taek Jung (president and CEO)
ProductsShips, offshore platforms, wind power, electric power & control systems and engineering & infrastructure
RevenueKRW 7.35 trillion (2019)
KRW (1.32) trillion (2019)[1]
Total assetsKRW 13.61 trillion (2019)[1]
Total equityKRW 5.25 trillion (2019)[1]
Owners
Number of employees
11,897[3] (December 2016)
ParentSamsung
Websitesamsungshi.com/En/

Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (Korean삼성중공업) is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea (including Hyundai and Hanwha). Geoje (in South Gyeongsang Province) is one of the largest shipyards in the world, having 3 dry docks and 5 floating docks. A core subsidiary of the Samsung Group, South Korea's largest conglomerate, SHI's main focus is on the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and the delivery of: transportation ships for the commercial industry, topsides modules, drilling and floating production units for the oil and gas sector, gantry cranes for fabrication yards, digital instrumentation and control devices for ships, and other construction and engineering services.

SHI operates manufacturing facilities at home and abroad, including ship block fabrication factories in Ningbo and Rongcheng, China. The Geoje Shipyard in particular, SHI's largest shipyard in South Korea, boasts the highest dock turnover rate in the world. The largest of the three docks, Dock No. 3, is 640 metres (2,100 ft) long, 97.5 metres (320 ft) wide, and 13 metres (43 ft) deep. Mostly ultra-large ships are built at this dock, having the world's highest production efficiency with yearly dock turnover rate of 10 and the launch of 30 ships per year.[4]

SHI specializes in the building of high added-value and special purpose vessels, including LNG carriers, off-shore related vessels, oil drilling ships, FPSO/FSO's, ultra large container ships such as Xin Beijing (2007),[5] and Arctic shuttle tankers. In recent times SHI has concentrated on LNG tankers and drillships. It has manufacturing centers in Rongcheng and Ningbo in China and a design center in India.

History

Samsung Heavy Industries was established in 1974, when the company's Changwon plant was opened. SHI soon purchased Woojin, followed by the construction of Geoje shipbuilding facilities and merger with Daesung Heavy Industries.

Samsung Shipbuilding and Daesung Heavy Industries were merged under Samsung Heavy Industries in 1983. Since then, it has put efforts in the introduction of new technologies and development of products, while expanding the business area into heavy equipment and construction.

Since the 21st century, SHI began to build LNG and large passenger ships in earnest, and exported shipbuilding technologies to the United States. Samsung Heavy Industries decided to advance into the cruise ship market, the last remaining stronghold of EU shipbuilders. The company stated entering the undertaking was necessary to maintain its number one position in the global shipbuilding market.[6] In 2009, SHI was contracted to build a new residential cruise ship named Utopia, which will be the largest passenger ship ever assembled in Asia. The ship will test the waters by 2016.[7]

Vehicle production

Starting in the late 1980s, SHI produced forklifts and heavy equipment (mainly excavators) at Changwon.[8][9] The forklift production was established through agreements with Clark Material Handling Company (production started in 1986) and the heavy equipment production came from the construction equipment division of Korea's Heavy Industries and Construction, acquired by Samsung in 1983 (SHI began manufacturing heavy equipment in 1987).[8][10] Truck production was added in May 1993.[11] The company also assembled electric car prototypes.[12] The truck production business was spun off in 1996 as a separate company called Samsung Commercial Vehicles.[13][14][15] The forklift and heavy equipment businesses were sold off in 1998.[8][9]

Wind turbine manufacture

Samsung Heavy Industries has been involved in wind turbine manufacture including the S7.0-171 turbine, which in 2013 was the world's largest wind turbine.[16][17] It is still one of the most powerful turbines on Earth.

See also

  • Economy of South Korea
  • List of Korean companies
  • List of shipbuilders and shipyards
  • Seocho Samsung Town
  • Samsung Heavy Industries Rugby Club

References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 " "기업재무정보 접속장애". https://comp.wisereport.co.kr/company/c1070001.aspx?cn=&cmp_cd=010140". 
  3. "Welcome to Samsung Heavy Industries". http://www.shi.samsung.co.kr/eng/. 
  4. "Samsung Heavy Industries". http://www.shi.samsung.co.kr/eng/company/06_01.asp. 
  5. IHS Fairplay (2010). Register of Ships. Surrey: IHS Fairplay. pp. 865. ISBN 978-1-906313-41-8. 
  6. "SHI Opens an Era of Cruise Shipbuilding in Korea". Samsung Heavy Industries. 2 December 2009. http://www.shi.samsung.co.kr/Eng/pr/news_view.aspx?Page=2&Seq=764&mac=f3adec1bf288896a0c9d440b2b8b531b. 
  7. "A Cruise That Never Ends". Forbes. 1 December 2009. https://www.forbes.com/2009/12/01/asia-biggest-cruise-ship-lifestyle-travel-samsung.html?feed=rss_asia. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Construction Equipment Division of Samsung Heavy Industries Signs Letters of Intent with Volvo Construction Equipment and Clark Material Handling". Samsung. 19 February 1998. http://www.samsung.com/us/news/newsPreviewRead.do?news_seq=141. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 Yun, Mikyung (2003). "Foreign Direct Investment after the Crisis". in Haggard, Stephan; Lim, Wonhyuk; Kim, Euysung. Economic Crisis and Corporate Restructuring in Korea: Reforming the Chaebol. Cambridge University Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-521-82363-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=aZW7QgZVlEUC&q=Samsung+Volvo+1998&pg=PA255. 
  10. Kwon, Ki-Yul. "A study on cross-border M&A and FDI policy in Korea". kdevelopedia.org. p. 33. https://www.kdevelopedia.org/download.do?timeFile=/mnt/idas/asset/2012/02/10/DOC/PDF/04201202100000703073301.pdf&originFileName=000000004981.pdf.. 
  11. "Annual Report 1996". Samsung. p. 59. http://www.samsung.com/common/aboutsamsung/download/performance/group_ar_1996.pdf. 
  12. Gadacz, Oles (20 June 1994). "Samsung introduces its 1st car an electric". Automotive News. http://www.autonews.com/article/19940620000100/ANA/406200750?template=print1. 
  13. "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in ja). Response.jp. 12 December 2000. http://response.jp/article/2000/12/12/6063.html. 
  14. Whitby, David R. (1999). "Automotive Trends in Asia". in Rudnick, Leslie R.; Shubkin, Ronald L.. Synthetic Lubricants And High-Performance Functional Fluids, Revised And Expanded. CRC Press. p. 730. ISBN 978-0-8247-0194-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=vkYCvwxyvsIC&q=Samsung+Commercial+Vehicles+2000&pg=PA730. 
  15. Hong, Gweon-sam (24 November 2000). "Truck Firm Files For Bankruptcy". Korea JoongAng Daily. JoongAng Ilbo. http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=1881908. 
  16. "Securing the World's Largest Wind Turbine". https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2013/10/securing-the-worlds-largest-wind-turbine.html. 
  17. "The world's 10 biggest wind turbines". January 2014. https://www.power-technology.com/features/featurethe-worlds-biggest-wind-turbines-4154395/. 

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