A KSS-III Batch-II submarine at Hanwha Ocean's facility in Geoje, South Korea. Hanwha is one of two companies shortlisted by Ottawa to compete on a multibillion-dollar contract to build up to 12 new submarines.

The huge South Korean shipyard that will welcome Prime Minister Mark Carney next week as he shops for new submarines resembles a giant’s workshop: roughly 40 colossal vessels in various stages of assembly that utterly dwarf the small army of people building them.

More than 30,000 employees work at Hanwha Ocean’s facility, which sprawls across five square kilometres, an area larger than Vancouver’s Stanley Park.

Towering over them are four Goliath cranes that can each lift 900 tonnes, immense assembly halls as tall as cathedrals and entire portions of ships as big as multi-store

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