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Hyundai Heavy wins $824 mln ship order from Europe

Mon Jun 2, 2008 9:40pm EDT

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SEOUL, June 3 (Reuters) - Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (009540.KS), the world's largest shipbuilder, said on Tuesday it had secured a 852.0 billion won ($824.3 million) order to build nine oil tankers for a European company.

Hyundai said in a filing to the Korea Exchange it would deliver the ships by the end of March 2012, without identifying the European shipper. ($1=1033.5 Won)

(Reporting by Kim Yeon-hee; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)



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