Hanjin hiring more workers

In the face of a continuing increase in orders from seafaring nations, Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction – Philippines (HHIC-Phil) will hire more workers for its shipbuilding facility in the Subic Freeport.

Hanjin officials said that by February this year, it will start building three Ultra Large Container Vessels (ULCVs), each wth the capacity to carry 20,600 twenty-footer equivalent unit (TEU) containers in one hauling.

The three ULCVs were ordered by France’s shipping conglomerate CMA CGM.

Each ULCV has a measurement of 400-meter in length, 59-meter in breadth and depth of 33 meters, with a deck as large as four soccer/football fields combined.

Yoo Hoan Jo, HHIC-Phil Managing Director for External Trade said that the new orders would require additional workers for the completion of the ULCVs.

HHIC-Phils. has already delivered 91 vessels since it started operations in the Freeport in 2008, boosting the country’s exports over the years.

In 2015, HHIC-Phils. delivered 16 vessels.

. “The synergy between Hanjin and the Filipino worker is really a great formula not just in shipbuilding, but in nation building as well. The company believes in the craftsmanship and hard work the Filipino is known for, and will continue to utilize the Filipinos’ capabilities in shipbuilding for years to come,” Jo said.

Meanwhile, HHIC-Phils. recently donated some P5 million to the National Anti-Poverty Commission’s (NAPC) priority projects for marginalized Filipinos, in simple turn-over ceremonies at the NAPC office in Diliman, Quezon City.

Afyer the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the two parties, Jo personally turned over the check to NAPC Secretary and lead convenor Jose Eliseo Rocamora,

The MOA states that the P5-million donation from Hanjin would be used particularly to support NAPC’s priority projects for post-Yolanda fisher folk settlement in Palawan and Sicogon.