HD Hyundai meets Canada's defense delegation to back Hanwha's sub bid

Canada's defense delegation visiting Korea this week stopped by HD Hyundai's headquarters in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Wednesday, ahead of Ottawa's upcoming decision on a final contractor to supply next-generation patrol submarines for the country's navy. The company said that Park Yong-yeol, head of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' (HHI) Naval Ship Business Unit, welcomed the delegation including Stephen Fuhr, Canada's secretary of state for defense procurement, and introduced the shipbuilder's destroyers, frigates, submarines and unmanned surface vessels, as well as its artificial intelligence-powered autonomous navigation technology. According to HD Hyundai, Fuhr showed a keen interest in the Korean firm's naval ship technologies and potential partnership for the submarine project, saying, "Amazing, I literally feel like I'm in the future." HD HHI, a shipbuilding subsidiary of HD Hyundai, has teamed up with its rival Hanwha Ocean to defeat Germany's TKMS in a competition to secure Canada's order of 12 patrol submarines worth 60 billion Canadian dollars ($43 billion). The deal, now beiWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times