Watch: Awesome Drone Video Of World's Largest Ship

Pioneering Spirit is the world’s largest platform installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel built for the Allseas company. The ship is also by far the world’s largest vessel overall ever constructed in terms of its gross tonnage of 403,342 gt, as well as its breadth (123.75 m/406 ft) and displacement (900,000 metric tons).

The main construction was done at Daewoo shipyard, Korea and final completion will be in the Netherlands.

The vessel was designed by a Finnish engineering company Deltamarin. Allseas has committed to build Pioneering Spirit at a cost of US$1.7 billion. In an interview with De Telegraaf” chairman Heerema named a price of €2.4 billion for the 382 metres (1,253 ft) long vessel. AllSeas has committed to building an even larger version of the same design, which will be operational in 2020

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