History

The footsteps of HMD, which only creates the best!

HMD, founded in 1975, is a shipbuilding company with the No. 1 share of the global market in the construction of mid-sized ships.

Present~2016 HMD Today
2024
  1. 12
    • Received the Grand Prize at the ‘1st Workplace Safety Culture Awards’ (KEF)
  2. 3
    • Renamed as HD Hyndai Mipo
    • Changed the company name, Hyundai-Vietnam Shipbuilding to HD Hyundai-Vietnam Shipbuilding
2023
  1. 11
    • Completed the Digital Manufacturing Innovation Center
  2. 09
    • Completed the Technical Innovation Center
  3. 07
    • Delivered the first container vessels operating on methanol
2022
  1. 12
    • Selected as "Excellent Weather Management Company"
  2. 11
    • Kim Hyung Kwan appointed as the 14th President of HMD
    • Selected as "Excellent Quality Competitiveness Enterprise(National Quality Management Convention)"
  3. 09
    • Completed 700-ton Gantry Crane by HD Hyundai Vietnam Shipbuilding(HVS)
    • Acquired the ISO 50001(International Standard Energy Management System) ISO 37001(Anti-Corruption Management System) certification
  4. 06
    • Selected as the best training institution for the national human resource development consortium project
  5. 03
    • Delivered 18,000㎥ LNG bunkering ship
2021
  1. 12
    • Won the title of "Family-friendly enterprise", given by Ministry of Gender Equality and Family
  2. 11
    • Roro passenger ship selected as the "World's Best Product"
  3. 10
    • Delivered Korea's first LNG propulsion Roro ship
  4. 05
    • Delivered Korea's first LPG dual fuel propulsion ship
  5. 02
    • Delivered the first LNG carriers
2020
  1. 01
    • Changed the company name, Hyundai-Vinashin Shipyard (HVS) to Hyundai-Vietnam Shipbuilding
    • Acquired the ISO 3834 (quality management system) certification
2019
  1. 11
    • HMD’s 30,000 cbm LNG carrier chosen as a World Class Product of Korea
    • HMD’s 50,000 cbm dual fuel-powered bulk carrier chosen as a World Class Product of Korea
  2. 05
    • Acquired the ISO 45001 (occupational health and safety management system) certification
  3. 02
    • 100th ship (Marlin Mystery No. 2) built by HVS
2018
  1. 12
    • Capital increased to KRW 199.7 billion (capital increase without consideration)
  2. 11
    • HMD’s Bangkok-max Container Carrier (1800~2000TEU) chosen as a World Class Product of Korea
    • HMD’s methanol carrier chosen as a World Class Product of Korea
  3. 10
    • Delivered the world’s first ballast-free LNG bunkering vessel
  4. 09
    • Delivered 31,000-ton car ferry (New Golden Bridge 7)
  5. 08
    • Achieved the feat of having no labor-management disputes for 22 years
  6. 05
    • Construction of the 1,000th ship (Ladon)
  7. 02
    • Surpassed 30 million DWT in ships built
    • Delivered the world’s first high-manganese steel DF-powered bulk carrier (Green Iris)
2017
  1. 11
    • HMD’s LNG bunkering vessel chosen as a World Class Product of Korea
    • Yongyeon Plant purchases an overseas plant to expand production facilities
  2. 10
    • Hosting of the VISION 2021 Declaration Ceremony
  3. 08
    • Achieved the feat of having no labor-management disputes for 21 years
  4. 05
    • Opened an in-house traditional Korean medicine clinic
  5. 02
    • Award at the 29th Korea Labor-Management Cooperation Awards (supervised by the Korea Employers Federation)
  6. 01
    • Four ships of HMD chosen as the World’s Excellent Ships (16 years straight) (one 50K and 40K PC each, LPG carrier, and asphalt carrier)
2016
  1. 12
    • HMD’s LEG carrier chosen as a World Class Product of Korea
    • Dissolution of the Dolphins FC
  2. 09
    • Achieved the feat of having no labor-management disputes for 20 years
  3. 07
    • Delivered the world’s first LPG carrier equipped with a nitrogen oxide reduction device
  4. 05
    • Construction of the 900th ship (Mari Jone)
  5. 04
    • Delivered the world’s first dual fuel (methanol)-powered PC carrier
  6. 03
    • Acquired the horizontal welding automation technology certification
    • built 300 ships in the past 18 years
  7. 02
    • Vessel No. 8173, the world’s first vessel to be equipped with a nitrogen oxide reduction device
  8. 01
    • Won the title of the World’s Excellent Ships for 15 years in a row (770FEU refrigerated container carrier and 12,000㎥ LEG carrier)

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