By Heejin Kim

ULSAN, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korea’s HD Hyundai Heavy Industries is in talks with multiple companies about buying a U.S. shipyard, a senior company executive said, seeking to tap into President Donald Trump’s push to revive America’s ailing shipbuilding industry.

The world’s largest shipbuilder based on orders is targeting 3 trillion won ($2.2 billion) in annual revenue by 2035 from building warships for the U.S. Navy, said Woo-maan Jeong, head of planning and management for HD Hyundai’s naval and special ship unit, in an interview at its Ulsan headquarters.

“It seems to be clear that we need to build a manufacturing base in the U.S. sometime in the future,” Jeong said on Wednesday, declining to name any companies involved in the talks or to give the scale of any po

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