Mega Transports

A brand-new oil rig, worth 500 million dollar, has to go from South Korea to Europe. The problem is that it is too gigantic for a heavy transport vessel. The solution is to tow it. By one single tug. It's a true Mega Transport, halfway around the globe. All that in just 90 days.

South America. The chelonian Atacama Desert is home to the world's largest radio telescope Atacama Large Millimeter Array Observatory, also known as ALMA. In an altitude of 5,000 meters above sea level, astronomers find perfect conditions for observing the universe. Almost no pollution, no artificial lights and very thin air.

A transport to the other side of the globe. The Höegh Trapper is the largest automobile transporter in the world. Two hundred meters long, thirty-six meters wide. But the major attraction is actually behind the steel hull. A gigantic cargo area. In total over seventy-one thousand square meters. Enough room for eight-thousand-five-hundred cars.

A wind park needs to get from Europe to Asia. Over two thousand tons of highly sensitive and valuable cargo. On one of the world's largest heavy lift vessels. The team has only 37 days for loading in two ports and travelling once around half of the globe. To be able to transport the entire cargo, the crew even has to build another level altogether.

A Mega Transport on one of the most dangerous roads in the world. The Siberian Ice Road. It doesn't forgive mistakes. It's treacherous. And unpredictable. A life-threatening adversary that has left many fractured and broken.

A three hundred and ninety ton giant on a daring journey: A team of German heavy-lift-specialists have to transport a generator from a disused coal plant to its new operation site 120 kilometers away. Sounds easy, but the weight and dimensions of twelve-million euro generator pose a grueling challenge for everyone involved.