Korea’s Most Expensive Ship Costs US$630 Million

The most expensive ship among the orders Korean shipbuilders have won this year is a US$630 million drill ship. Samsung Heavy Industries won a contract from Sweden in October to build the 97,000-ton drill ship, which is 228 m long and 19 m tall. In terms of price, the ship costs the equivalent of five 300,000-ton crude oil carriers (VLCCs) or two or three LNG ships.