The deeper the better

摘要

Plenty of behemoths are being welded into shape in South Korea's shipyards at the moment. Clustered around the southern city of Busan, the big three yards-Samsung Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, and Hyundai Heavy Industries-are churning out the world's biggest container ships, 400 metres long; an oil barge whose length, at about 460 metres, or 1,462 feet, is almost half the height of Scafell Pike, England's tallest mountain; and some of the largest oil rigs yet built.