Expedited entry of foreign technical personnel… ‘Shipbuilding history’s manpower shortage of breath’

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(1)As foreign skilled workers enter the country faster, shipbuilders are struggling with manpower’
(2)Input 20230120 A.M. 304 Article ID
(3)Reporter Kim Jae-hyung
(4)1 family.
(5)Impact of Government Visa Examination Period Shortening Measures
(6)More than 1,000 employees per company in the first half of the year
(7)Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries HNH
(8)Forty-five Thai shipbuilders who received E7 visas came to Korea via Incheon International Airport on the 19th. Provision of Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
(9)As the government’s measures to shorten the visa screening period speed up the entry of general skilled foreign workers, domestic shipbuilders are gradually taking a breather in the labor shortage.
(10)According to the shipbuilding industry on the 19th, 45 Thai shipbuilding welders who received E7 visas from the Ministry of Justice stepped on Korean soil through Incheon International Airport on the same day. Eighteen Hyundai Heavy Industries and 27 Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries were the first foreign skilled workers this year. They moved to shipyards of their respective companies to fill the manpower gap at the site.

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The shipbuilding industry has experienced severe labor shortages, with orders increasing, but the shipbuilding schedule being pushed back by more than four weeks due to the inability to find a person to work. If the delivery date is delayed further, each company may have to pay tens of millions of won a day on a merchant ship basis, so each company is preparing to recruit more than 1,000 foreign skilled workers in the first half of this year.

“After the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced policies on the 6th to resolve difficulties in introducing foreign workers in the shipbuilding industry, a group of overseas workers came in every week and the site began to revitalize,” an industry official said.

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