The giant of the deep: inside the world’s most powerful pile-driving vessel

Discover the engineering marvel reshaping offshore construction. From a 150-meter derrick to record-breaking hydraulic power, see how Erhang Changqing dominates the maritime world.

Giants with golden spheres: why MOSS LNG carriers remain the kings of maritime safety

Discover the engineering marvel of MOSS-type LNG carriers. Explore why these iconic spherical giants are still the ultimate gold standard for safety and reliability in global gas transport.

Ocean freighters - the art of transporting the impossible

In global maritime logistics, there are ships that are rarely mentioned in the news, but without which the largest industrial projects on the planet would be impossible. These are heavy-lift ships — floating giants capable of transporting items that cannot be dismantled, lifted by a conventional crane, or delivered by other means.

World’s largest LNG-Powered container ship CMA CGM Jacques Saade

The container ship CMA CGM Jacques Saade is a vessel built for the French company CMA CGM. It is named after the founder of the company, Jacques Saade. CMA CGM Jacques Saade was launched in September 2019 and became the first ship in the «Gas4Sea» series of container ships powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG).

The three largest cruise liner in the world together

Last week there was an event, which was waiting for all lovers of marine news. On November 4, the largest cruise liner in the world Harmony of the Seas arrived to its home port Everglades.

The giant of offshore construction — SAIPem 7000 that lifts the impossible

Why can offshore oil platforms weighing thousands of tons be installed with millimetric precision in open sea? This article explains how one of the world’s most powerful floating crane vessels makes it possible — combining extreme lifting capacity, dynamic positioning, offshore engineering, and industrial-scale logistics.

The Titanic of the Great lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald

Why did the largest ship on Lake Superior vanish in minutes? Explore the engineering, the omens, and the chilling final moments of the Great Lakes' Titanic.

Liner-giant Oasis of the Seas passed the cruise company Royal Caribbean International

After six years of creating a unique vessel, the management of Royal Caribbean International took on October 28, 2009 its most revolutionary and the world's largest cruise liner Oasis of the Seas from the shipbuilders of STX Europe, which was signed by the relevant documents in the Finnish city Turku. From this moment, the debut flight of the liner from the marshy plains of Fort Lauderdale, Florida began on December 1, 2009.

The largest world container ship Emma Maersk

Emma Maersk is a container ship owned by the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. When she was launched, Emma Maersk was the largest container ship ever built, and as of 2008 the longest ship in use. Officially, Emma Maersk is able to carry around 11,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) according to the Maersk Company's method of calculating capacity, which is about 1400 more containers than any other ship is capable of carrying.

The Sovereign of the Seas: Why the Royal Clipper Remains a Modern Engineering Miracle

Discover the Royal Clipper, the world's largest square-rigged sailing vessel. Explore its 42 sails, 5,000 tons of steel, and the pinnacle of nautical luxury.

Noah's ark of our time is a livestock carrier Stella Deneb

«Stella Deneb» is the world's largest livestock carrier. In 2005, the ship was still called «Deneb Prima,» but in March 2006, the vessel obtained a new owner, the company «Siba Ships.»

The SS Great Eastern: the iron Leviathan that was too big for Its time

Discover the incredible story of the SS Great Eastern — Brunel's «Crystal Palace of the Sea» that revolutionized shipbuilding and laid the first transatlantic cable.

Knock Nevis is the largest vessel in the world

Oil has long become the most sensitive nerve of the global industry. Often, «black gold» is most profitably transported by water, rather than by land. The route taken by vessels of this type is called the «oil route.» As early as the 19th century, when coal was the primary raw material, crude oil was transported in wooden and zinc barrels in the holds of specialized sailing ships designed for oil transportation.

Container ship Emma Maersk - the largest cargo ship in the world

Today, ninety-five percent of all cargo is transported by sea. Container ships are relatively young types of vessels. With an average age of 10 years, «Emma Maersk» is considered the youngest among other container ships of its kind.