What Does it Take to Build the Biggest Ships in the World? | Generation Earth | BBC Earth Science

Come to the world’s biggest shipyard and witness how tens of thousands of steel and engines the size of houses make every vessel ready to transport goods around the world.
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[@ronkirk5099]

Along with telecommunications, transportation has truly made global commerce the wonder of our age. I retired from the transportation industry as a merchant marine engineer on a relatively small ship in comparison to these container behemoths, a 650', 30,000 ton, bulk ship with only 12,000 hp and 12 kt speed. It was a good life.

[@user-oq9vd5cy2b]

How a grand sight!

[@elainebenes7971]

Our world wouldn't exist without the shipping industry but most of us dont know anything about it

[@arsenal0095]

Interesting!

Do Koreans really use horse powers instead of kilowatts? Or have you forced the engineer to use that nonsense unit to make the video less comprehensible?

[@user-ie2kn2sx9b]

They used HP so everyone can understand what he is talking about. Most poeple asociate kilowatts with electric power. Its more easy for most people to compare it with the power of their own car.

[@tramsgar]

Meh. Not THAT large. Not THAT many.