MAJOR South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean Co announced that it has won a KRW1.69 trillion (US$1.25 billion) order to build six liquefied natural gas (LNG) dual-fuel container vessels from a European shipper.

Hanwha Ocean will construct six 15,000 TEU LNG dual-fuel container ships at its dockyard on the southern island of Geoje, the company revealed in a regulatory filing, reports South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

The vessels are scheduled to be delivered by December 2028 to an undisclosed client in Europe.

So far this year, Hanwha Ocean has bagged $7.35 billion worth of orders to build a total of 37 vessels, far exceeding the $3.5 billion for the whole of 2023.

Hanwha Ocean, formerly Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co, set sail as the shipbuilding arm of chemical-to-defence industry conglomerate Hanwha Group in May last year.