HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has successfully won consecutive contracts for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) of the US Navy’s logistics support vessels.

On the 7th, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries announced that it had recently secured a contract for the scheduled maintenance of the USNS Cesar Chavez, a 41,000-ton cargo replenishment ship belonging to the US Navy’s 7th Fleet. The vessel, which entered service in 2012, measures 210 meters in length, 32 meters in width, and 9.4 meters in height. HD Hyundai Heavy Industries plans to begin maintenance at its Ulsan shipyard on the 19th. After completing work on more than 100 items, including the hull and structures and electrical systems, the company plans to deliver the ship to the US Navy in March this year.

This contract is the second MRO agreement that HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has obtained from the US Navy. Previously, the company completed MRO work at the end of last year on the logistics support vessel USNS Alan Shepard, which it was awarded for the first time by the US Navy in August. The vessel subsequently departed on the 6th of this month.

HD Hyundai appears to be expanding its warship MRO-related business, using the Korea–US shipbuilding cooperation project “MASGA (Make American Shipbuilding Great Again)” as a springboard. This strategy is also reflected in its organizational restructuring. Integrated HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, launched on 1 December last year through the merger of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and HD Hyundai Mipo, reorganized its existing Special Ship Division into the Warship & Medium Range Ship Division.

Joo Won-ho, President of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, said, “Since the launch of the Warship & Medium Range Ship Division, we will further strengthen the substance and efficiency of our operations and lead the US naval vessel MRO sector.”

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