All Hyundai Merchant Marine wants for Christmas is about $280m to present its parent with a large slice of a sister manufacturing firm.



Hyundai Engineering & Construction has on the same day, however, issued a "thanks, but no thanks" to Hyundai Group over its share purchase proposal.



Without the share sale, Hyundai's purchase plans could be hampered.

The South Korean diversified shipowner HMM is planning to sell of shares in a French subsidiary in order for the group to fund a controlling stake in Hyundai Engineering.



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