The South Korean government has announced a support plan to the national shipbuilding industry worth 9,000 billion won ($6.7 billion) for the construction of ships and for the digital transformation of the sector. Today, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of Suel presented the "K-Shipbuilding Next" program Generation Initiative" agreed with the national companies of the that has been defined together with the shipbuilding Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE), Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Hanwha Ocean (formerly Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.) and which provides for investments of that magnitude over the next five years in operation research and development for the technological updating of the sector in order to increase their competitiveness.

Among other things, the agreement provides for the establishment of a task force for technological cooperation in shipbuilding, to which The three Naval Societies, the Association of and the government that will have the to identify requests for technological collaboration and to examine the difficulties of technological development.

The plan is complemented by the government's programme of training of manpower for the shipbuilding industry, which includes the training of 2,000 employees per year, in which the three shipbuilding groups in order to ensure the necessary supply of of a suitably trained workforce.

The agreement also provides for the commitment of the three companies to reduce the wage gap between staff to a minimum of the main contractors and subcontractors.

"The challenges facing the national shipbuilding industry Minister Dukgeun Ahn stressed that they go beyond the sphere of individual companies and must be overcome through teamwork between the public and private sectors, given that whereas the role of the shipbuilding industry is very important to reach $700 billion this year. exports'.