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HD Hyundai Heavy Industries

South Korea · Founded 1972

Ulsan, the largest shipyard on Earth.

Ships here2
Longest400.00 m
Deliveries1986–2015
Still in service1
The yard

The story so far

Hyundai's Ulsan complex is the biggest shipyard in the world, a ten-drydock city that has delivered more ships than any other single site in history. Founder Chung Ju-yung famously won the first orders in 1971 with photographs of an empty beach and a 500-won banknote showing a sixteenth-century turtle ship.

Its giants on this site span forty years: Berge Stahl, the world's largest bulk carrier for a quarter of a century, and Barzan, UASC's 18,800 TEU flagship. Today the yard builds everything from megamax boxships to LNG carriers under the HD Hyundai group.

The line-up

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries ships

Side profiles are sized by real length overall, longer ships draw bigger. Categories are never mixed.

Side by side

Every ship, ranked by length

ShipCategoryLengthBeamDeliveredStatus
BarzanContainer400.00 m58.60 m2015In service
Berge StahlBulk342.08 m63.50 m1986Retired 2021