Hanjin firm hiring 20,000 Pinoys for shipbuilding

IBA, Zambales – Gov. Amor Deloso’s Task Force Hanjin announced yesterday that Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. (Hanjin) based in Subic in this province is now recruiting at least 20,000 Filipino workers.

Hanjin Task Force chairman and former vice governor Ramon Lacbain II said that Hanjin is filling up job vacancies for its shipbuilding and ship repair projects.

Hanjin is a South Korean firm investing some $2 billion on a ship repair facility in Subic.

“To fill in Hanjin’s labor requirements, we started recruitments last month. This month, we will have more interviews in the provincial capitol in Iba on Oct. 24 and in Barangay Mangan-vaca plaza in Subic the following day,” Lacbain said, as he told applicants to first submit their resumés and other required documents to either Deloso’s office here or at the Task Force Hanjin office in Subic.

The first batch of 700 applicants were already interviewed at the provincial capitol here and 650 of them passed and are now undergoing training at Hanjin at the Subic Bay Industrial Park within the Subic Freeport, Lacbain said. Lacbain said that Hanjin has already reached an agreement with various countries for ship repair services. “This only goes to show that the firm has the respect of various ship owners worldwide,” Lacbain said.

Earlier, Hanjin already firmed up agreements with Germany, France, India and Turkey for eight container carriers and ship building projects costing about $2 billion, Lacbain said.

Task Force Hanjin was created by Deloso to ensure that the South Korean investment would also benefit folk in Zambales.