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Perfect – and looking to keep it that way. The Roll-On/Roll-Off (Ro-Ro) ship North Star is one of the only links between Alaska and the continental U.S. So far this winter, her captain, Richard Cadigan, has delivered everything from food to building supplies to pickup trucks from Seattle to Anchorage on time – within a short 72-hour window.

She’s the most expensive single project in Maersk history. For the same price as 50 container ships – $1.3 billion – the world’s largest ship company has built the newest and most sophisticated ship the oil industry has ever seen. She is designed to receive oil from nearby platforms, process it, and offload it to visiting tankers. Now it’s time to for her start making good on that investment.

In the arsenal of the world’s most advanced superpower, one weapon is feared the most… the ballistic nuclear missile submarine. Get an unprecedented look at USS Kentucky, one of the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-Class ballistic missile nuclear-powered submarines; virtually undetectable, she is capable of launching a surprise nuclear attack on any country in the world.

Welcome to the future. It took $1.4 billion to build the largest, most revolutionary cruise ship in the world… but will she live up to the hype? Go onboard the Oasis of the Seas for her maiden voyage; the largest, most revolutionary cruise ship on Earth, discover the space-age technologies that help her operate, navigate and entertain 5,000-plus passengers.

This oil and gas pipelayer is as big as an aircraft carrier, 300m (984 foot) long with a state of the art on-board welding factory the size of four city blocks.

She’s the heavy weight champion! The most modern, most powerful multipurpose heavy-lift cargo carrier on Earth! Beluga Bremen is the world’s first multipurpose heavy lift cargo carrier that can hoist more than 1,400 tons of weight! Built by Bremen-based Beluga Shipping, Beluga Bremen is ready in May 2010 for her maiden voyage. It will be a major event since Bremen is the first of sixteen ships in Beluga’s latest generation of super heavy-lift P2 series carriers… the biggest most powerful heavy lifters in the shipping world.

USNS Robert E. Peary is the supply lifeline to task force (CTF-151) in the hot pirate zone of the Gulf of Aden. USNS Peary is a T-AKE 5 supply ship, one of the newest state-of-the-art ships built for 21st century naval warfare. T-AKE’s are the lifeline of the US Navy, allowing their warships to maintain a forward offensive presence in any hot zone anywhere in the world. Mighty Ships joins USNS Peary on active deployment in the hot zone of the Gulf of Aden replenishing a fleet of 20 warships.

To perform the world’s most dangerous job demands the support of the most technologically advanced ship in the world. On the frontline of exploring Earth’s final frontier, the sea floor, is a new breed of ship… the saturation dive support ship. The biggest, the best and the newest is Skandi Arctic. She’s the mother ship for aquanauts who work hundreds of meters below the surface on jobs considered, at least on this planet, the most dangerous in the world. Christened in 2009, Skandi is 157 meters long and the saturation dive habitat that sits on her stern is both state of the art and borderline science fiction.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No! It’s Superferry! Stena Britannica was designed to change the way people and things move. It’s a bold, exciting, 21st century gamble. At a cost of over a billion Canadian dollars, Stena Line, the largest ferry company in Europe, has merged a car carrier, passenger ferry, cargo transport and cruise ship into the largest, most luxurious, most technically advanced “super” ferry in the world. There is nothing else like her.

She’s the biggest, best, most hi-tech U.S. Coast Guard ship ever built! USCGC Bertholf is brand new, the first of eight Legend Class ships built for US homeland security. It’s a new job for the coast guard and Bertholf is the first to take it on by patrolling the high seas, looking for drugs, weapons, human trafficking piracy, as well as traditional search and rescue missions.