When you need to transport 22 barges – each weighing nearly 3,000 tonnes – half way around the world, you're going to need a pretty sturdy boat.And they don't get much sturdier than the Blue Marlin, one of the most extraordinary crafts ever to sail the seas.The incredible ship can carry 75,000 tonne
The ship of all ships: The largest cargo transport ship in the world, the Blue Marlin of Dockwise, carries four pontoons and 18 hulls on its back from Nantong Port, China
Carrying an oil rig: The ship set a new record by delivering BP's 59,500tons semi-submersible Thunder Horse platform from Okpo, South Korea to Corpus Christi, USA in 2004
Less of a load: Two 'Viktor III - Class' nuclear-powered submarines are carried along the coast of Russia
The Blue Marlin carrries another oil rigm this time it is Diamond Offshore's semi-submersible drilling rig, Ocean Monarch. The rig was laoded in Singapore and discharged in Corpus Christi, USA
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