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Discover the economic advantages of ship extensions as a cost-effective solution for meeting the rising demand in global trade. We delve into the intricacies of extending the cargo ferry Tonia, a 200-meter vessel, by 30 meters, showcasing the precision and complexity involved in the process at a German shipyard. Learn how shipbuilders strategically cut and expand existing vessels, providing shipping companies with a 25% increase in cargo space and reduced operating costs, making ship extensions a viable and efficient solution for the maritime industry.
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@brianlouishaddock4551 4 месяца назад

Back in the 19 60’S my ship was cut in half to give it an extra hatch, this was preformed in John browns yard of Glasgow, the ship was the crystal sapphire a bulk sugar for Tate and Lyle, the owners ,Dagenham Dock London.

@markmark2080 4 месяца назад

Very impressive, large scale precision...

@user-fz6vs4de9m 5 месяцев назад

wow! From San Diego, CA USA, how VERY INTERESTING. I never knew this was possible. I am very impressed

@douglasr.c.5622 5 месяцев назад

Such a clean cut.... Amazing !!!

@WalterTresslor-yi4pf 5 месяцев назад

Amazing feat of marine engineering.

@williamlogsdon4472 5 месяцев назад

Great vid. Could you shoot a vid on the working of a draw bridge, the gears working as it raises and lowers?

@georgeburns7251 5 месяцев назад

Everyone looks like they are very well fed.

@jannejohansson3383 5 месяцев назад

Fat one's 😊

@jannejohansson3383 5 месяцев назад

That's why they need bigger boat / vessel. Video wobbles and even sound sails around, so it's like nightmare some point.

@TheMrPeteChannel 2 месяца назад

And they say only Americans are fat.

@Fitbridges 5 месяцев назад

Could they use laser shining one side to other to confirm separation, along wit visual inspections?

@user-xp4of2vu4r 4 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing. Good video. Excellent education and entertainment for a bunch of us who sit at home never to experience such challenging duties.

@garyweaver317 5 месяцев назад

Very good educational video.

@andrewbrodie2718 6 месяцев назад

This is like a PBS documentary for 6 year old children in America.

@Katchi_ 4 месяца назад

Please do not discredit six year old children.

@user-ol4dk9fk4m 4 месяца назад

I take it you are a Know All

@drjasper100 4 месяца назад

I highly recommend the diesel additive for cleaning called ‘Fuel Right’. Top product.

@TheRusschannel 6 месяцев назад

I just cant imagine those welds being as strong as the old ship??

@jacobmygindpedersen1138 5 месяцев назад

The entire vessel is already welded together like that from birth.🤷🏼

@chezsnailez 5 месяцев назад

That used to be a problem with the old WWII 'Liberty' and 'Victory' cargo ships. Every so often one of them would snap in half, if we recall, in the same general area every time. Something, something, brittle steel. Was solved by attaching metal 'straps' to the sides of the hull to take up some of the stress.

@TheBigRed. 5 месяцев назад

How they built in the first place??? 🤦‍♂️🥴🥴🥴

@theonlybuzz1969 5 месяцев назад

A correctly welded joint will be stronger than the surrounding material, once welded the operator will have all of the welds checked with a electromagnet that with the use of a ferric spray, and after a detector will show any imperfections in the weld that can be investigated further. It’s not their first rodeo and won’t be their last either.

@andidevlin3361 5 месяцев назад

@@chezsnailez these were ships built in weeks so theres going to be defects and bad workmanship on some causing them to snap and fail. the Liberty class ships pretty much won the war as so many of the dam things were built. an absolute super human effort to build so many in such a short time

@alanmassey8002 4 месяца назад

Would it be possible to use strong electromagnets in numerous places to keep the joints tight together for welding

@mikekufakwedeke8845 5 месяцев назад

How do they weld underneath

@ayush21399 6 месяцев назад

Amazing

@singendertanz5075 5 месяцев назад

What a pitty that a link to the original german Video is not in the description of the Video yet!

@richardgiles2484 5 месяцев назад

What an amazing video and such skill by all. I'm a little surprised at the lack of PPE and edge protection 😂

@MyPropertyChannel 5 месяцев назад

They don't need PPE, they're sensible, professional men who recognise danger.

@billjenkins687 5 месяцев назад

Unreal!

@MrJeep75 5 месяцев назад

What a big job

@nozyspy4967 5 месяцев назад

What i find even more remarkable is how they are able to find and disconnect all the pipes and cabling!

@Katchi_ 4 месяца назад

Yeah... because the entire structure is an absolute mystery.

@nozyspy4967 4 месяца назад

@@Katchi_ Not so much that, there are detailed plans after all, but actually making sure you have found and checked everything! Imagine you forget ONE cable...

@owl1873 6 месяцев назад

For sure.

@Troy707 6 месяцев назад

It may look easy??? Nooooooo. It definitely doesn’t look easy!

@kerrryschultz2904 4 месяца назад

I would think the hardest part is match the insert to the original ship. I would assume the blueprints would specify dimensions and spacings of the hundreds of stringers that make up the various deck floors and overall dimensions but I wonder if precision spacer blocks are used to help to position certain multiple members that are tacked to metal deck sheets to form various quite precise components.

@saaawa 5 месяцев назад

I came up with a simple way to check if the original ship has been splitted into two pieces completely without being connected even a centimeter long. That is to check if a piece of string or wire can be moved through the entire cross section at the cut.

@herculydia Месяц назад

They do it with a super long string yo-yo from the top of the ship as they walk port to starboard.

@luke6575 6 месяцев назад

Merry Christmas everyone from Australia 🎄 🎅

@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus 4 месяца назад

Drinking game - take a shot each time they say "Jorg Palantin".

@world_still_spins 4 месяца назад

How about when anyone says ship or ship's?

@herculydia Месяц назад

I'm 45 minutes into it and I don't think I can pilot back to shore. Setting anchor here to sleep it off.

@Denton498 6 месяцев назад

Just me or does the video look "wavey" no door frame is straight, just looks strange

@tomstandish6704 5 месяцев назад

Some job satisfaction there

@hardylee5364 5 месяцев назад

I would like to know if they use a "C P T" ( Critical Path Technique) on this kind of job ?

@ruscador1 6 месяцев назад

52:08 bit of scruffy welding on them butts

@RobertWilliams-mk8pl 5 месяцев назад

Carry extra flares.

@donalfinn4205 4 месяца назад

‘those butts’

@donalfinn4205 4 месяца назад

Damn ads.🤬

@richardrichard508 6 месяцев назад

Yes editing can make anything look easy however this speed of turnaround: shows impressive organisation and preparation. When a "stretch" is both horizontal and vertical the extra windage with the same power installation can (as experienced) challenge manoeuvrability in severe wind conditions.

@thereissomecoolstuff 6 месяцев назад

35 days is very fast until I found out the South Koreans build an entire 800 foot bulk carrier in 34 days.

@alex9621 6 месяцев назад

@@thereissomecoolstuff Building a vessel is actually simpler and faster because it requires less time in the drydock

@thereissomecoolstuff 6 месяцев назад

@@alex9621 I agree with you. Dry docks on their own are amazing. Boeing is making 1.3 737 a day trying to get to 1.8 per day. We live in an amazing time.

@IntheFishtank 6 месяцев назад

@@thereissomecoolstuff New building is always faster than conversion !

@thereissomecoolstuff 6 месяцев назад

@@IntheFishtank I agree. Imagine an entire modern ship from cutting steel to launched in 34 days. Until any modern country can do that we will be at the mercy of those that can.

@jamesdean780 2 месяца назад

BC ferries have been doing this for years. Both length and height enhancements.

@zeekwolfe6251 5 месяцев назад

Too much of talking heads and contrived suspense and too little about technical details and the actual procedure. An interesting project video made boring!

@sjonniezwaailamp 5 месяцев назад

Indeed al bla bla bla

@anthonybernstein9698 5 месяцев назад

Not only too much taking, the music is also unnecessary.

@peteryeung111 5 месяцев назад

It’s probably a trade secret? I suspect not many companies in the world could tackle such feats🤷🏻‍♂️

@thomasdickson35 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for saving me an hour

@firstlast1047 4 месяца назад

The commenters, what a bunch of dorks. Yeah, if you were in a train or car wreck, would you be talking tecnical details. They are in survival mode. Being able to acquire fuel is an accomplishment. Trying to ascertain the "why" mid ocean is a wasteful activity. Getting to shore is the immediate concern. If any of you want an inspirational message...read the bible😅

@liamthompson9342 5 месяцев назад

What so they just completely skip over the welding process. That was the one bit I wanted to see.

@perstaffanlundgren 5 месяцев назад

Yes i arge

@detroitboy65 5 месяцев назад

Astounding incompetence for both the ship's crew and the dock workers. Seems to me that emptying the diesel tanks would have been done if a sharper organizer was in charge.

@Katchi_ 4 месяца назад

Found the ignorant entitled ameritard...

@MGower4465 5 месяцев назад

Opening VO all about giant container ships. Actual vessel, a big car ferry and the work was all done years ago, and has already been gone over in at least two other docs. Has no other ship gone through this?

@adriannegrillo8394 5 месяцев назад

I had serious anxiety when they were walking in-between the halves!

@chrisdavis5718 4 месяца назад

I, too would have preferred to have seen some of the actual work during the cutting and rewelding.

@Guds777 3 дня назад

Damn, the internet has ruined me, i was so hoping for the bow to fall over... :D :D :D :D

@EelingStudios 5 месяцев назад

Fascinating heavy engineering excellence showed. Sad to see the chem-trailing overhead at 40.48. and other outside scenes.

@davidelliott5843 5 месяцев назад

Presumably, you mean aircraft condensation trails. Why is that a problem?

@JR-rx2ke 5 месяцев назад

Ah, yes those mysterious condensation trails, indicating the unknown science behind Archimedes of Syracuse' steam engine.@@davidelliott5843

@SeeSaw72 5 месяцев назад

Are you implying that airlines are poisoning our atmosphere on purpose and to what end? Have you analysed those trails yourselves and found proof that they are full of detrimental chemicals.

@K-Effect 5 месяцев назад

2:02 Interviewer “Are you nervous? Project manager. “No.” Says the man with armpits so wet it looks like he’s been in the rainforest😂

@mutualbeard 5 месяцев назад

I'm an Australian and can remember the pain of farmer's here in the 60's that lost their British market. I can't not appreciate the irony of what is now happening.

@MattHasty 5 месяцев назад

Great show, very interesting, but at the same time SUPER ANNOYING that "rolling shutter" effect (the wavy lines when the camera moves) is driving me crazy. Looks like it was filmed on amateur cameras.

@MattHasty 5 месяцев назад

Ah, the final credit says "BohemiaMedia".... that mean "poor" right? So they did use amateur cameras. Hopefully they profited enough money from this nice production to afford pro-level cameras that won't make me seasick every time the camera pans or zooms!

@ewanbaxter9199 5 месяцев назад

I have seen RU-vid videos of extended ships where the bow is flexing up and down in rough seas and one where the bow broke off. Not German shipyards though.

@herculydia Месяц назад

Wow! Never would have thought this would be considered. Don't let this type of transformation get to Boeing.

@janvugts1023 5 месяцев назад

Vraagje als je allen schepen op de wereld uit het water haalt, hoeveel cm zou dan de zeespiegel zakken?

@sonnylatchstring 5 месяцев назад

We are talking about approximately 55,000 ships, of which approximately 770 are supertankers. A reasonable estimate is that all those ships together are comparable to 5,000 supertankers, each 300 meters long and 50 meters wide. This gives an area of 75 km2. These ships have pushed away water over this surface, with an average draft of about 20 meters. But if we spread that 20 meters over the entire ocean, it is 'diluted' by the ratio between the 75 km2 of the ships and the 360 million km2 of the oceans. This results in an increase of 4 x 10-6 m. So those are not centimeters, or even millimeters, but micrometers! For comparison, 4 micrometers is about one-tenth the thickness of a human hair.

@ivoryjohnson4662 6 месяцев назад

These details should have been worked out long before the ship showed up. Same way with shore power. If there are any delays due to the ship not being prepared then should be financially responsible for the delay

@foxstrangler 5 месяцев назад

These details were worked out in advance, this is just TV drama at work.

@RebuildingScotland 5 месяцев назад

Seeing the severed section at the base of the hull, that definitely was single skin, not double skin, as they mentioned in the video

@johanea 4 месяца назад

Correct, it is nothing but single hull. Even the Class classify the vessel as single hull, so go figures.

@TheMrPeteChannel 2 месяца назад

I think they meant it had a double bottom.

@keithhigh7773 5 месяцев назад

British Pedant Here. There is a difference between cutting a ship in half, and cutting a ship in two.

@thereissomecoolstuff 6 месяцев назад

Pretty amazing for 35’ of extension.

@jacobmygindpedersen1138 6 месяцев назад

It's meters.

@jamespayne8781 6 месяцев назад

A little over 90 feet.

@thereissomecoolstuff 6 месяцев назад

@@jamespayne8781 They said 35 meters? Makes more sense. It looked small due to the scale. Thanks

@jacobmygindpedersen1138 6 месяцев назад

@@thereissomecoolstuff30 meters actually which is two additional trailers in length in 8 rows on 4 decks so it's quite a lot of exstra capacity. I have been 1st and 2nd Officer in DFDS (and 2nd Engineer) on these exact vessels.

@thereissomecoolstuff 6 месяцев назад

@@jacobmygindpedersen1138 It is a lot. I enjoyed this but wanted to see more of the welding and wiring. That is back breaking work.

@Lee-qp6gf 5 месяцев назад

No X raying of those welds? I can't believe that.

@jimtitt3571 5 месяцев назад

I (a marine engineer) cut a mostly complete superyacht in half and lengthened it because the owners wife complained the bathtub was too short!

@elelegidosf9707 5 месяцев назад

Surely it would have been easier to shorten the wife

@chezsnailez 5 месяцев назад

@@elelegidosf9707 ~ don't call her Shirley - her name's Audrey...

@elelegidosf9707 5 месяцев назад

@@chezsnailez Ahhh, one of the lead jokes from the 1980 international smash hit movie Airplane rears its head once more. Nice to see it again; it's always a classic.

@chezsnailez 5 месяцев назад

@@elelegidosf9707 ~ we'd often dreamed that Shirley Temple had gotten a role in that sprawling epic just to comeback that line with the addition of 'name's Audrey in this picture...'

@Katchi_ 4 месяца назад

Liar.

@MyPropertyChannel 5 месяцев назад

As much as it pains me to say, you have to admire their efficiency. There is no way on this earth that a British shipyard could complete this type of work in 5 weeks. They would spend longer than that just drinking tea!

@joeblogs5163 5 месяцев назад

Big cut and shut, lets hope it doesn't invalidate there insurance.

@doubledarefan 5 месяцев назад

Unlike this ship, cut-&-shut (C&S) cars are usually never done with this much attention to detail. A properly done C&S car will be just as strong as a new one. The reason C&S cars are the unroadworthy hazards they are, is because the work is done as cheaply as possible.

@Bob.martens 6 месяцев назад

I sailed on this ship as a passanger from Ghent to Goteborg a few years ago.

@badad0166 6 месяцев назад

Would that have been before or after the extension?

@Bob.martens 6 месяцев назад

@@badad0166 After, in 2018. This video is over 10 years old.

@badad0166 6 месяцев назад

@@Bob.martens Thanks! Sail On!

@gekkehansie 5 месяцев назад

you only sailed on a part of this ship though....

@yabbadabbadoo8225 5 месяцев назад

the new section was made in just 6 weeks? It takes me 6 weeks to get to the toilet

@paulsheward3325 4 месяца назад

They done it to Bell ferry ships, they all foundered

@josephdupont 5 месяцев назад

I wonder when we'll hear about this one breaking in half

@kolsen6330 5 месяцев назад

Never. A stretched hull is just as strong as new construction.

@user-py3bh6rl2c 5 месяцев назад

They expanded their video very well 😂😂

@christianhegemann1911 6 месяцев назад

German engineers show whats possible. I think only few ship yards are able for that and no one else so precise like German ship builders mechanics and engineers.

@alex9621 6 месяцев назад

Lmao calm down your adulation! While it is a difficult job that requires lots of know how it certainly isn't a german prerogative. In fact, many other shipyards are able to perform that type of job on even more technically complex vessels like cruise ships

@JusticeAlways 6 месяцев назад

@@alex9621 I was going to post similar comment. 👍

@peterfrazer1943 5 месяцев назад

Sorry to hurt your pride in German Shipyards but in the UK from 1970 to the nineties I worked on numerous Ship lengthening jobs. They were common place and not really hard to do. We cut a Ship in half horizontally and raised it by just over a metre, first time it had been done in the World. This was at Middle Docks Engineering at South Shields on the River Tyne, UK

@jacobmygindpedersen1138 5 месяцев назад

Conversions like this is done all over the world - no worse and no better than in Germany.🤷🏼

@jacobmygindpedersen1138 5 месяцев назад

But German engineering is definitely in general quality and high class!

@beemerkon 5 месяцев назад

Why not do a documentary on just how much just one ship pollutes compared to every vehicle in the world

@rolffigueiredo3786 5 месяцев назад

The cutter at 21 was not wearing safety glasses, unless his super speed was faster than a camera 🎥.

@superhawk20002 5 месяцев назад

Well, you obviously did not see the other safety equipment covering his eyes... I mean cmon, eyes aren't that important anyway. But I certainly saw he had his company approved, OSHA certified "safety squints" on. 😅

@silentepsilon888 5 месяцев назад

safety contact lenses are the new thing these days!

@julianreverse 4 месяца назад

He was wearing red welding goggles 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

@carlobini6747 5 месяцев назад

How they've authorized something like that and with which safety assurance....??? 😥🤔

@gregj7916 4 месяца назад

Why extend a ship if the guy described it as unstable due to it's design?

@peterfrazer1943 5 месяцев назад

In my 35 years in Ship repair, at Middle Dock Engineering, UK, we cut numerous Ships in half and lengthened them. It is not a big deal. The outstanding job for me was when we cut a Ship in half horizontally and heightened it by just over a metre. It was the first time it had been done in the World. British skill at its best.

@GraniteRidge 5 месяцев назад

How thick are the steel shells.

@GraniteRidge 5 месяцев назад

Are they hand welded, stick welded.

@jacobmygindpedersen1138 5 месяцев назад

Cool!

@jonhodson854 5 месяцев назад

😅

@jonhodson854 5 месяцев назад

BK British Knowhow.😅😂a JOKE

@badad0166 6 месяцев назад

I want the chewing gum concession for this crew.

@kolsen6330 5 месяцев назад

As long as I can have the sunflower seed concession.

@chrisg5894 4 месяца назад

Ugh. Nobody noticed the wavy camera footage?

@thegiggler2 5 месяцев назад

Let me show you my stretch lowrider ferry.

@texasproud3332 6 месяцев назад

The amount of electrical line’s steam lines fuel lines are astronomical

@Katchi_ 4 месяца назад

tejus: A third world shit hole.

@steveandjenny149 5 месяцев назад

If the most beautiful thing in the world to him is a metal ship....he's lost.

@angloland4539 2 месяца назад

❤

@DonLuc23 4 месяца назад

The noise is way too loud

@peterresetz1960 6 месяцев назад

I would like to know what video camera was used to record all of this documentary. The reason being is that every time the camera panned, a distortion of vertical straight lines would be momentarily displayed. So it was a nice documentary recorded on a cheap consumer grade video camera.

@aleksandrrr 6 месяцев назад

the video are from 2007 and filmed on tape.

@variovent 4 месяца назад

Adding just 30 m more simply don't worth it, but I guess the ships profile don't allow for bigger alterations.

@georgerix3224 5 месяцев назад

Why couldn't they make up their minds in the first place? I remember when they SHORTENED a container ship (the Galveston Bay). The wartime 'Frankenships' where more interesting though.

@i_hate_you_tube_rewind_2014 6 месяцев назад

A little bit too much boring faces, but it is an interesting work indeed.

@claesmansson9070 5 месяцев назад

DFDS, De Forenede Dampskibs Selskaber/The United Steamship Companies.

@elelegidosf9707 5 месяцев назад

1:00:00 "By increasing the cargo space by 25%, the shipping company is saving one in four trips". Nope. It is saving one in _five_ trips, not four. Math is hard....

@mikewatson4644 5 месяцев назад

And 5/4 of people have trouble with fractions

@MrJeep75 5 месяцев назад

I'm part Danish

@Katchi_ 4 месяца назад

I completely don't care.

@world_still_spins 4 месяца назад

Couldn't they just use a diamond rope to make the two parts?

@jameshenry3530 5 месяцев назад

It is interesting that the Germans and Danes communicate in English.

@miaji1963 5 месяцев назад

Mega modifications

@davidjackson2115 5 месяцев назад

Im disapointed yous made a point of not covering the welding, cutting the thing apart etc... yeah you have to be careful - but is easy. Welding it back together is hard. As thick metal like that you can weld and no sooner you do - can get a crack in the weld straight away - as the metal so thick and strong as soon as it cools and contracts it can split like toilet paper - so I was keen to see how they did that. The rest of doco good / exellant but......

@train4905 4 месяца назад

This was a good video.but WHY THE MOST ANNOYING HEAD BANGING MUSIC WHICH SPOILT IT

@user-qb8fp8oj1p 6 месяцев назад

😱😱😱😱😱😱

@trunkmonkey2931 5 месяцев назад

All that work then to catch fire and sink with all them Lamborghini, Ferrari, Range Rovers , Pagani , Mercedes Etc....

@linardskinard8199 6 месяцев назад

Why not just have a fire ,collect insurance, then scrap it

@jacobmygindpedersen1138 5 месяцев назад

The vessel is a money machine when it's in operation. DFDS is very profitable - a well managed company.

@MrJeep75 5 месяцев назад

Stupid comment

@Katchi_ 4 месяца назад

@@jacobmygindpedersen1138 Ignore the ameritards.

@willyvonbusche729 6 месяцев назад

Interesting video but voiceover is a stupid thing. Subtitles is much better.

@ericerto8250 5 месяцев назад

That's a lot of work just to extend a ship 100 feet.

@jeffreyharvey8111 5 месяцев назад

That is the most inept docking captain and crew I’ve ever seen. What a bunch of miss fits. What if the wind was blowing and there was a current.

@billrowan1957 6 месяцев назад

I don't see why this can't be done in a shift or two... must be a government contract

@jacobmygindpedersen1138 5 месяцев назад

What?? Are you high on something??? 🤣

@billrowan1957 5 месяцев назад

@@jacobmygindpedersen1138 yes I am. Then and now. Why do you ask?

@jacobmygindpedersen1138 5 месяцев назад

@billrowan1957 That explains I guess...😂 Do you know anything about ships? There are hundreds of cables, sensors and pipe systems that have to be rewired/connected/installed. It's not rocket science but it's a big project every time. That's why a conversion like this takes time no matter where in the world it is done. It's not like the ship yards are ineffective amateurs who don't know what they are doing - they are highly skilled experts. Why do you have the misconception that this can be done in a shift or three?

@billrowan1957 5 месяцев назад

@@jacobmygindpedersen1138 it's called sarcasm. the use of irony to mock.

@outfoxthefox 5 месяцев назад

You sound like a UK government minister. With as much knowledge.

@maestrodiogenesbillionaire870 5 месяцев назад

What the DUCK I wanted to see the three pixels of ship come together and get welded. This 22 mm measurements then cut to finished and painted ready to float is bullship . It goes 49:00 minutes prepping for the welding yet you all show no welding. As far as I’m concerned this is a scam video. There was no ship build it’s all CGI pixels. I live next to a ship yard and there’s way more ppl working there then what’s in this not video. I hope my disappointment is clearly showing.

@Baskerville22 5 месяцев назад

I wouldn't want to sail in a re-constituted ship

@Katchi_ 4 месяца назад

Are you dumb or stupid?

@romanregman1469 5 месяцев назад

".... 300 millimeters of paint ...." Really? REALLY? That's almost A FOOT of paint .... ! Is that a mistake, or is that really how much paint there's on the outer hull of these behemoths? Wouldn't it be easier to cover the ship in anechoic tiles, just like modern submarines? ya know, to make the ship "invisible" to sonar, thus creating a better stealthier ship in case it's gone under; or if a sub wants to ping and throw away its location so's it could get a better "fix" on the ship because visual is unavailable or something ..... ..... or if Sharknado becomes reality, and the soft steel needs to be protected by a thick layer of yucky rubber or paint or painted rubber.

@mikewatson4644 5 месяцев назад

Width not thickness. They remove paint left and right of the cut lines.

@brickleyyard4966 5 месяцев назад

Id like to see them just try it will a ship of a real size Dont get me wrong 200 extended to 230 is cool but doing something like this to a ship like the emma maersk it would never be practical

@kolsen6330 5 месяцев назад

Why not? If Maersk needed it longer it would only take a drydock or shipways long enough to haul it out of the water. There is NO size limit on lengthening a steel hull. Widening something that big would be a real bitch, tho.

@Katchi_ 4 месяца назад

Your lack of education does not change the complexity of the world around you.

@kolsen6330 4 месяца назад

@@Katchi_ And how does this comment relate to lengthening a ship??? And how do you assume I am uneducated?

@nathandean1687 4 месяца назад

with crapp piiss poor welds. who ever made those weld should be canned. get welder(s) who know how weld.

@paulkazjack 5 месяцев назад

Only German Engineers can carry out this type of complex work.

@jackrabbit68 5 месяцев назад

This work is not complex at all.

@jacobmygindpedersen1138 5 месяцев назад

No. Conversions like this is done all over the world.🤷🏼 Currently the South Korean shipbuilding industry is king (even though China has overgrown it).

@eddiewynne691 5 месяцев назад

I was doing this in A & P Falmouth 30 years ago...P & O ferry : The Buffalo :

@ghorpestad 5 месяцев назад

Very lack of safety PPE 👎

@Katchi_ 4 месяца назад

Wrong.

@danielfantino1714 5 месяцев назад

The real mistake was ordering that ship from the begining. It was 6 years old. Delete on that time to built new extension, make plan for it, find the least expansive shipyard, a lot of talking in management, etc.... so how old was it when they found it wasn´t big enough ? It looks like management at first ordered a ship not large enough at the begining It would have been cheaper and less downtime. Somebody should be fired. The document was made in 2010. In 2024 it is 20 years old In 10 years it will be cut up as scrap metal.