A legal fight with rig giant Ensco has sent Samsung Heavy Industries to a wider loss in the second quarter of 2019.
Seoul-listed Samsung lost a $180m arbitration battle with the drilling company in May and is appealing the decision.
The situation, however, saw it run up a KRW 309.4m ($261m) loss in the three months to the end of June, compared with a KRW 142.7m red number a year ago.
According to the Yonhap news agency, the shipbuilder is forecasting a better showing in the second half of the year.
Samsung, a major builder of tankers, LNG carriers and containerships, inked new deals worth $3.2bn in the first half.
This compared with an order target of $7.8bn for the full year.
Its overall order backlog sits at 93 vessel worth a collective $20.5bn.
A bundle of 34 LNG carriers worth $6.2bn make up the largest slice of the orderbook.
Other notable clusters include 10 boxships worth $2.4bn and 27 tankers priced at a shade over $2bn.
Samsung said demand for core products like LNG carriers and mega-containerships will continue this year.
It said rising global LNG exports were fueling need for the ships, while requirement for boxships over 10,000-teu was sustainable because of economy of scale and slow steaming in the market.
