SEOUL, KOREA - The amount of contracts won by companies listed on the Korea Exchange has increased by a large margin. The Korea Exchange said on June 3 the sum of contracts, including in the areas of construction, system, and manufacturing, won by KOSPI companies for the past five months was 33,266.1 billion, up 29.68 percent from the same period last year.
By industrial sector, construction topped the list with 15,825.8 billion won (up 67.74% from the same period in 2012), followed by others (manufacturing and system) with 7,567.3 billion won (up 39.47%). As for shipbuilding, however, the contract volume shrank to 9,873.0 billion won, down 8.52 percent from 10,792.6 billion won a year ago.
Samsung C&T won the single largest contract from the Roy Hill iron mining project in Australia with 6,411.4 billion won. It was followed by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering for building four container ships with 4,175.0 billion won.
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