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

TV Show · Documentary

This series follows a core crew of larger than life engineers, shipbuilders, captains and designers working across the globe for Maersk - the largest shipping company on the planet.

2016 · 44m

Starring Bill Petrie

Director Tim Clarkson, Peter Fison

EPISODE 1

Mega Yards

The Okpo and Sungdong shipyards of South Korea, host two teams building the Maersk Tangier, a giant tanker, and the world's biggest jack-up rig, the XLE4.

42 min
EPISODE 2

Huge Hulls

The workers attempt their heaviest lift ever - hoisting a giant 3,000 ton leg well.

42 min
EPISODE 3

Emergency

Both the tanker team and the rig team are feeling the pressure as the challenges of the Tangier increase.

42 min
EPISODE 4

Super Tug

In Korea, the XLE4's hull is being completed while construction of the vessel's bow and stern begins at two shipyards in Poland.

42 min
EPISODE 5

Launch

The Tangier is about to take to the open sea for the very first time in South Korea; super tug's hull pieces delivered in Norway.

42 min
EPISODE 6

Maiden Voyage

The Tangier is finally complete and has departed for her maiden voyage; on the other side of the world, the super tug team races against time to finish.

42 min

Bill Petrie

Narrator
Tim Clarkson

Director
Peter Fison

Director
Ingo Nyakairu

Director
Peter Oxley

Producer

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