Daewoo Shipbuilding Wins 606-bln Deal

According to Asia Pulse Data Source, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., has won a deal valued at 606 billion won (US$647 million) to build a drill ship. The deal calls on Daewoo Shipbuilding to deliver the vessel by July 2011, the company said in a regulatory filing, without identifying the customer. Daewoo Shipbuilding has won more than $22 billion worth of contracts so far this year to build 136 vessels.