Daewoo Seeks Gas Tanker Order

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the world’s No. 2 shipbuilder, said yesterday that it aims to win more than half of 44 gas-tanker orders from Qatar by 2010. Of the total, Daewoo Shipbuilding has already secured at least 15 tankers, Chung Sung-lip, chief executive of the company, said.