The largest ship in the world: Pioneering Spirit.
The Pioneering Spirit is a ship of Swiss-Dutch offshore company Allseas. It was built at DSME in South Korea and is registered under the Maltese flag.
At 382 metres long and 124 metres wide, this ship is the largest in the world. With these dimensions, it is as big as two supertankers and equal in area to eight football fields.
The Pioneering Spirit can lift and transport large platforms of around 48,000 tonnes from their pedestals in one go instead of in smaller sections. The vessel can also lay pipelines with diameters ranging from 6 to 68 inches for oil and gas transport at depths of up to 3,500 metres at a speed of over seven kilometres a day.
This picture was taken on 12 August 2023 at the Princess Alexiahaven on Maasvlakte 2.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…