Established ASD Partners Co., Ltd. in a strategic partnership by and between Samkwang Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. (Samkwang) and Dongsung Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (Dongsung), top-tier tugboat builders in Korea, to strengthen their overseas marketing to become part of a major group leading the global tugboat market.

ASD Partners is not a simply shipbuilding related company, but a provider of business opportunity in the field of newbuilding, selling and chartering of tugboats and the other type of small-sized vessels based on the unique expertise accumulated through the successful construction and delivery of more than 500 ships in total by Samkwang and Dongsung.