Top two shipbuilders of the world to merge

The world’s biggest shipbuilder, South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries, has reached a deal to acquire a majority stake in ailing number two Daewoo from the government, Seoul said Thursday, January 31.

The world’s top three shipbuilders are South Korean — Samsung Heavy ranks third — but the industry has been hammered in recent years by overcapacity and plunging ship prices.

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has struggled in particular and has repeatedly been bailed out by the government to...

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