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China's new heavy-lift ship is one of the biggest ever built
By Dyllan Furness — May 31, 2016

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China is updating its navy into the 21st century, and as part of that initiative, it’s adding a fleet of massive support ships to help stretch its limbs around the world. The latest and largest of these ships, the Guang Hua Kou, was launched last month at Guangdong Shipyard International. Though the ship is formally built for COSCO Heavy Transport, a state-owned civilian firm, it will likely be made available for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) for peace and wartime operations, reports Popular Science.

The Guang Hua Kou falls into a class of vessels known as heavy lift semi-submersible ships and, at 98,000 tons, it’s one of the biggest in existence. Heavy lift ships are designed to transport huge payloads everything from other ships to oil drilling platforms and construction equipment– that are too big to carry on conventional shipping vessels.

Related: DARPA’s 130-foot submarine-hunting drone will take to the sea in April

In order to load other ships, semi-submersible vessels like the Guang Hua Kou flood their ballast tanks to sink below the water’s surface and position their payload over the vessel’s submerged deck before pumping water out to lift the ship. The Guang Hua Kou clocks at nearly 700 feet long and 225 feet wide, enabling it to carry ships as big as missile destroyers.


Useful as they may be for transport, heavy lift ships can also be deploys as portable docks and platforms which, as Popular Science suggests, can be used in offensive operations to should and launch helicopters, landing crafts, and surface ships.

Over the past six months, China has literally created a greater military presence in the South China Sea by constructing artificial islands, on which they’ve erected lighthouses and even landed airplanes. Though these disputed islands have heightened tensions with neighboring nations, the Guang Hua Kou’s launch suggests that China is still intent on flexing it’s naval strength.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/china-heavy-lift/#/4#:xhYCnRIeMndetA
 
China's new heavy-lift ship is one of the biggest ever built
By Dyllan Furness — May 31, 2016

cosco1-970x647-c.png



China is updating its navy into the 21st century, and as part of that initiative, it’s adding a fleet of massive support ships to help stretch its limbs around the world. The latest and largest of these ships, the Guang Hua Kou, was launched last month at Guangdong Shipyard International. Though the ship is formally built for COSCO Heavy Transport, a state-owned civilian firm, it will likely be made available for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) for peace and wartime operations, reports Popular Science.

The Guang Hua Kou falls into a class of vessels known as heavy lift semi-submersible ships and, at 98,000 tons, it’s one of the biggest in existence. Heavy lift ships are designed to transport huge payloads everything from other ships to oil drilling platforms and construction equipment– that are too big to carry on conventional shipping vessels.

Related: DARPA’s 130-foot submarine-hunting drone will take to the sea in April

In order to load other ships, semi-submersible vessels like the Guang Hua Kou flood their ballast tanks to sink below the water’s surface and position their payload over the vessel’s submerged deck before pumping water out to lift the ship. The Guang Hua Kou clocks at nearly 700 feet long and 225 feet wide, enabling it to carry ships as big as missile destroyers.


Useful as they may be for transport, heavy lift ships can also be deploys as portable docks and platforms which, as Popular Science suggests, can be used in offensive operations to should and launch helicopters, landing crafts, and surface ships.

Over the past six months, China has literally created a greater military presence in the South China Sea by constructing artificial islands, on which they’ve erected lighthouses and even landed airplanes. Though these disputed islands have heightened tensions with neighboring nations, the Guang Hua Kou’s launch suggests that China is still intent on flexing it’s naval strength.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/china-heavy-lift/#/4#:xhYCnRIeMndetA


Yet another peace-maker in China's seas in the East and South, and beyond.
 
Maybe that would be a Panama flagged.
This is good carrier for transporting damaged destroyers.
 
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China's new heavy-lift ship is one of the biggest ever built

Headline is right.
Its not the biggest in the world.
Its one of the biggest.

Netherlands still rules on such.
 
China's new heavy-lift ship is one of the biggest ever built

Headline is right.
Its not the biggest in the world.
Its one of the biggest.

Netherlands still rules on such.

The Dockwise Vanguard is owned and operated by a company based in the Netherlands but built by Hyundai Heavy Industries.

The Guang Hua Kou is Made in China by this company.

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It will be owned and operated by COSCO Heavy Transport and the PLA will have easy access to it. That's the difference.

Besides, China has long been capable of building this type of ship. 98,000 tons is overkill for most purposes anyway.

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Let me know when India has the ability to build these ships. I won't be holding my breath.:)
 
The Dockwise Vanguard is owned and operated by a company based in the Netherlands but built by Hyundai Heavy Industries.

The Guang Hua Kou is Made in China by this company.

LmVpdgQ.jpg


It will be owned and operated by COSCO Heavy Transport and the PLA will have easy access to it. That's the difference..:)


The (country wise) ownership of a vessel is identified by the port of registry and the flag it flies. Not which company built it. That's the difference..

Golden standard of maritime shipping.
 
The bottom line is that the Guang Hua Kou has a larger deadweight tonnage than the MV Blue Marlin, which was the largest ship of this type until early 2013.

I'll provide some examples of what the MV Blue Marlin can carry.

USS Cole after the al-Qaeda terrorist attack in 2000.
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Sea-Based X-Band Radar.
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Thunder Horse PDQ, the largest semi-submersible oil platform in the world.
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The Made in China Guang Hua Kou can carry all of this and more. This is the real reason why all the trolls are getting upset. I would be upset too if I were Indian.:)
 
The Dockwise Vanguard is owned and operated by a company based in the Netherlands but built by Hyundai Heavy Industries.


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LmVpdgQ.jpg


It will be owned and operated by COSCO Heavy Transport and the PLA will have easy access to it. That's the difference.

Besides, China has long been capable of building this type of ship. 98,000 tons is overkill for most purposes anyway.

8lpNj37.jpg

8nea89I.jpg

3U6lOb7.jpg


Let me know when India has the ability to build these ships. I won't be holding my breath.:)

India already has these ships, in fact modi planning on building a bigger one that can fly to mars.
 
The Dockwise Vanguard is owned and operated by a company based in the Netherlands but built by Hyundai Heavy Industries.

The Guang Hua Kou is Made in China by this company.

LmVpdgQ.jpg


It will be owned and operated by COSCO Heavy Transport and the PLA will have easy access to it. That's the difference.

Besides, China has long been capable of building this type of ship. 98,000 tons is overkill for most purposes anyway.

8lpNj37.jpg

8nea89I.jpg

3U6lOb7.jpg


Let me know when India has the ability to build these ships. I won't be holding my breath.:)

The bottom line is that the Guang Hua Kou has a larger deadweight tonnage than the MV Blue Marlin, which was the largest ship of this type until early 2013.

I'll provide some examples of what the MV Blue Marlin can carry.

USS Cole after the al-Qaeda terrorist attack in 2000.
c7RPISr.jpg


Sea-Based X-Band Radar.
PtTg9vG.jpg


Thunder Horse PDQ, the largest semi-submersible oil platform in the world.
yNz8aWw.jpg


The Made in China Guang Hua Kou can carry all of this and more. This is the real reason why all the trolls are getting upset. I would be upset too if I were Indian.:)

That is absolutely MASSIVE.

Guang Hua Kou is a king.
 
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