Name: World's Biggest Shipbuilders
Released: 2016-08-28T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Bill Petrie

TV Show · Documentary

Following the Maersk Group, one of the world's leading shipping and energy giants, and its team of experts as they design and build super ships and deep ocean rigs.

2016 · 44m

Starring Bill Petrie

Director Tim Clarkson, Peter Fison

EPISODE 1

Mega Yards

Two teams are building the Maersk Tangier, as well as the world's biggest jack-up rig the XLE4, in the South Korean shipyards of Okpo and Sungdong.

42 min
EPISODE 2

Huge Hulls

Workers face an incredibly heavy lift - hoisting a giant 3,000 ton leg well into position, with the help of the yard's floating crane.

42 min
EPISODE 3

Emergency

The Tangier is welded together from 129 huge steel blocks. The challenges increase for the tanker team, while the rig team also feel the pressure.

42 min
EPISODE 4

Super Tug

The construction of the vessel's stern and bow starts in Poland. Meanwhile, the XLE4's hull is being completed in Korea.

42 min
EPISODE 5

Launch

Workers prepare for the delivery of the super tug's hull pieces in Norway. In South Korea, the Tangier will take to the open sea for the first time.

42 min
EPISODE 6

Maiden Voyage

The Tangier has been completed, and has left port to begin her maiden voyage. Elsewhere, the super tug team race against the clock to finish the build.

42 min

Bill Petrie

Narrator
Tim Clarkson

Director
Peter Fison

Director
Ingo Nyakairu

Director
Peter Oxley

Producer

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