The world’s biggest PC maker HMD has inaugurated an 11-month program to educate trainees from HVS, a Vietnamese joint venture, in HMD’s Ulsan yard. The 99 trainees selected from the local HVS employees began their 11-month training on Mar. 10 in HMD.

This large-scale training is the second time HMD transferred shipbuilding technology to the HVS workers for three months in 1998. After eight days of getting used to the shipyard while staying in the company’s Ulsan dormitory, they had firsthand experience with the Korean state-of=the art shipbuilding technology. The new trainees are expected to obtain knowledge of recent technology while working with HMD employees and to get internationally approved certificates such as ABS Q2 from the HMD’s technology institute. This training will provide a good opportunity for the trainees to improve their ability on both theory and practice. HMD currently focuses its capability on the new business of building MR PCs and high value-added special purpose ships.

Furthermore, the company is likely to transmit the accumulated know-how on ship repair and conversion to its Vietnamese joint venture by training their employees in Korea. These series of efforts are HMD’s strategic plan to continuously keep its good reputation of ship repair and conversion by mixing Korean technology with Vietnamese labor.