Mega Transports (2017)
Everyone knows heavy haulage: large parts are transported on big trucks with yellow warning lights on streets. However, all that is "peanuts" compared to our "mega transports": heavier, larger, more complicated and more unusual. These require pinpoint planning, which can only take place with special safety precautions, and for which large teams plan months in advance before things are ready.
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Episodes
- 1 1. Oil Rig · 43mThe brand new oil rig, West Bollsta, worth $500 million, travels from manufacture in South Korea to Europe. Although self powered, the rig still needs a specialised high powered oc
- 2 2. Chile · 43mThe worlds largest, but extremely sensitive and valuable, radio telescope array antennas, have to be relocated to new sites in the inhospitable Chilean Atacama Desert. The job is f
- 3 3. Autoliner2019-11-30 · 48mThe Höegh Trapper is the largest car transporter in the world. It can carry 8,000 vehicles in 71,000 square metres of storage space. One of the construction design factors was the
- 4 4. Windpark2019-10-28 · 48mA wind farm - over 2,000 tons of highly sensitive and valuable cargo - needs to get from Europe to Taiwan in Asia using one of the world's largest heavy lift vessels. A team has on
- 5 5. Ice Road2019-11-04 · 46mRussia has some of the most extreme weather conditions in the world, especially in winter. Transporting one of the biggest bulldozers in the world, to gold mines in the Kolymar mou
- 6 6. Generator2019-11-11 · 47mThe team faces winding country lanes, ramshackle bridges and an unexpected change of plan as its members try to take a 390 tonne generator on a journey of 120km, before their permi
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