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South Korean shipbuilder (329180.KS) building naval vessels, offshore substations, and large engines, including capacity for AI data centers.
HD Hyundai reported first-half operating profit of 6.96 trillion won, up 187%, on revenue of 42.01 trillion won. Its 1.4 trillion won spent or set aside for data-center engines, servicing and a reactor facility is about a fifth of that.
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Hanwha's Philly Shipyard has no orders beyond its owner's except three Matson container ships, the WSJ reported, despite a $5 billion investment pledge. The centerpiece of Korea's $150 billion MASGA pledge has posted operating losses for six straight quarters.
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HD Hyundai and Siemens opened a Busan center with 50 specialists to integrate ship design, production and maintenance data into 3D models. The 2030 target is a 30% cut in build time, and neither company disclosed what it is spending to get there.
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Hyundai Glovis is buying HD Hyundai unit Avikus' navigation software for 10 new 10,800-CEU car carriers, according to shipping industry sources. Together the ten ships hold 108,000 vehicles per sailing, 2.2% of the 5 million a year Glovis wants to move by 2030.
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South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration plans to enact guidelines in December that let two or more companies win the same weapons program. Analysts tie it to the KDDX destroyer feud between HD Hyundai Heavy and Hanwha Ocean, where a split award would move the contest to follow-on work.
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Korea's Nuri rocket placed 15 satellites at about 575 km on its fifth flight, five of them the first home-launched NEONSAT Earth-observation microsatellites. The other half of the 10-satellite constellation, and the coverage it was designed for, waits on a sixth flight next year.
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HD Hyundai gave Lee Sang-kyun its shipyards and its data-center and reactor plans, but put its 830 billion won engine expansion under Han Joo-seok. The only new venture with a budget so far extends the engine business the group already runs.
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Hyundai Glovis signed an MOU on Sept. 30 with Liberty Global Logistics to test whether small-reactor car carriers are viable on Korea-US routes. The agreement moves the reactor ship from engineering approval into the regulatory and commercial questions that decide whether anyone orders one.
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HD Hyundai Heavy Industries will engineer, build, install and commission the offshore substation for a 500MW wind farm off Taean, South Korea. That gives its in-house substation design a paying reference project, and the next test is whether developers outside the buyer's three owners will buy it.
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South Korea launched the Daeho Kim Jong-seo at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan yard, the sixth and last ship of its 19-year Aegis destroyer program. President Lee Jae-myung named nuclear-powered submarines as the Navy's next core asset, so the yard's next multi-year naval order depends on that pledge becoming a funded program.
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The Ulsan memorandum splits more than 1 trillion won between a HiMSEN power engine plant sized at 3 gigawatts and a line for small modular reactor components. The city's contribution is faster permits.
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Strip out seniority step increases and the Ulsan shipbuilder is offering 63,000 won against a 149,600 won demand, with 33 hours of walkouts booked through the 18th and five working days left before Chuseok.
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The company told investors that engine order inflow has already passed what its plant can handle. The expansion is a bet that generation capacity, not compute, is the scarce asset.
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The KOSPI closed up 0.88% on the 21st while the KOSDAQ fell 4.63%. That gap is not risk appetite. It is two chip names promising to hand cash back.
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