Tag Archives: Extreme Engineering

PortandTerminal.com, July 8, 2020 DUBAI – A video of one of Iran’s three Kilo-class submarines being transported by truck was posted to social media today and is being reported on in Iranian media. Kilo-class subs are diesel-electric attack submarines designed and built in the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy and were built up until the mid-1990s. Iran bought three Kilo-Class submarines from Russia (known as Tareq-class …

PortandTerminal.com, June 30, 2020 CASABLANCA, MOROCCO – The world’s longest conveyor belt is 61 miles in length and runs from a mining town in the Western Sahara Desert in Morocco to the port of El-Aaiun on the country’s coast. The conveyor belt starts at a phosphate mine located in Bou Craa in the Western Sahara Desert The purpose of the …

PortandTerminal.com, September 19, 2019 Located about 50 miles off the west coast of Norway, the Troll-A is a colossal natural gas platform and the tallest structure ever moved by mankind. Its construction is considered as one of the largest and most complex engineering projects in history. OSLO, NORWAY – The Troll-A platform is an offshore natural gas platform in the Troll gas field off Norway’s west coast.  …