World's largest man -made movable object is going to be scrapped

The largest moving man-made object ever built.  The longest ship ever built.  The ship with the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded, at 646,642 tons.  This is the ULCC KNOCK NEVIS.  She was originally built as the SEAWISE GIANT, and later possessed the names HAPPY GIANT, and JAHRE VIKING.  Her final name was MONT, the name given to her for her final voyage from the Middle East to India.  She now lies beached in the graveyard of ships in Alang, India where she is slowly being ripped to pieces.

Specifications:

Tonnage:	260,941 GT 214,793 NT
Displacement:	81,879 long tons light ship 646,642 long tons full load
Length:	458.45 m (1,504.10 ft)
Beam:	68.8 m (225.72 ft)
Draught:	24.611 metres (80.74 ft)
Depth:	29.8 m (97.77 ft)
Propulsion:	Steam Turbine
Speed:	16 knots
Capacity:	564,763 DWT

The ship has certainly had her share of stories.  She partially sank at one point, but only after having several Exocet missiles fired from Iraqi jets explode on her decks which eventually led to her being declared a total lost once.  She’s seen multiple owners over her lifetime, and ultimately ended up servings as a permanently moored floating storage platform at the Qatar Al Shaheen oil field in the Persian Gulf.

The Jahre Viking at her finest.

Its expected to take at least a year to dismantle this beast.  It is sad to think that this is the end for such an amazing feat of engineering and design.

Below is the only known photo on the net of the vessel beached at the breakers.

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Top 100 container ports

RANK'08	RANK'07	PORT	COUNTRY	THROUGHPUT'08
1	1	SINGAPORE	SINGAPORE	29,973,000
2	2	SHANGHAI	CHINA	28,006,400
3	3	HONGKONG	CHINA	24,495,000
4	4	SHENZHEN	CHINA	21,416,000
5	5	BUSAN	SOUTH KOREA	13,452,786
6	7	DUBAI	UAE	11,800,000
7	12	GUANGZHOU	CHINA	11,001,400
8	11	NINGBO-ZHOUSHAN	CHINA	10,933,700
9	6	ROTTERDAM	NETHERLANDS	10,830,000
10	10	QINGDAO	CHINA	10,024,400
11	9	HAMBURG	GERMANY	9,737,110
12	8	KAOHSSIUNG	TAIWAN	9,676,554
13	14	ANTWERP	BELGIUM	8,666,736
14	17	TIANJIN	CHINA	8,502,700
15	16	KLANG	MALAYSIA	7,973,579
16	13	LOS ANGLES	USA	7,849,984
17	15	LONG BEACH	USA	6,487,816
18	18	TANJUNG PELEPAS	MALAYSIA	5,600,000
19	20	BERMERHAVEN	GERMANY	5,500,709
20	19	NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY	USA	5,265,053
21	21	LAEN CHABANG	THAILAND	5,133,930
22	22	XIAMEN	CHINA	5,034,600
23	24	PANAMA	PANAMA	4,651,556
24	26	DALIAN	CHINA	4,502,756
25	25	JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU PORT	INDIA	4,185,000
26	23	TOKYO	JAPAN	4,155,997
27	27	JAKARTA	INDONESIA	3,984,278
28	31	COLOMBO	SRI LANKA	3,687,338
29	35	VALENCIA	SPAIN	3,602,112
30	29	YOKOHAMA	JAPAN	3,481,492
31	28	GIOIA TAURO	ITALY	3,467,772
32	33	HO CHI MINH	VIETNAM	3,400,000
33	34	JEDDAH	SAUDI ARABIA	3,325,749
34	30	ALGECIRAS	SPAIN	3,324,310
35	39	SAID PORT	EGYPT	3,257,749
36	32	FILIXSTOWE	UK	3,200,000
37	40	SALALAH	OMAN	3,086,000
38	37	MANILA	PHILIPPINES	2,997,022
39	57	LIANYUNGANG	CHINA	2,965,000
40	36	NAGOYA	JAPAN	2,816,827
41	44	SANTOS	BRAZIL	2,674,975
42	46	DURBAN	SOUTH AFRICA	2,642,165
43	43	SAVANNAH	USA	2,616,125
44	42	BARCELONA	SPAIN	2,569,549
45	61	SUZHOU	CHINA	2,569,500
46	47	KOBE	JAPAN	2,556,584
47	52	SHARJAH-INCL KORFAKKAN	UAE	2,501,829
48	45	VANCOUVER	CANADA	2,492,107
49	41	LE HAVRE	FRANCE	2,450,000
50	38	ISTANBUL	TURKEY	2,397,086
51	60	MALTA FREEPORT	MALTA	233,000
52	51	MELBOURNE	AUSTRALIA	2,303,186
53	49	OSAKA	JAPAN	2,243,362
54	48	OAKLAND	USA	2,233,533
55	55	ZEEBREGGE	BELGIUM	2,209,715
56	53	VIRGINIA	USA	2,083,278
57	54	SURABAYA	INDONESIA	2,064,673
58	50	KEELUNG	TAIWAN	2,055,258
59	79	YINGKOU	CHINA	2,036,400
60	67	BANDAR ABBAS	IRAN	2,000,230
61	69	ST PETERSBURG	RUSSIA	1,983,110
62	56	KINGSTON	JAMAICA	1,915,952
63	59	TACOMA	USA	1,861,358
64	71	SYDNEY	AUSTRALIA	1,856,978
65	66	GWANG YANG	SOUTH KOREA	1,810,048
66	64	HOUSTON	USA	1,794,309
67	68	BUENOS AIRES	ARGENTINA	1,779,107
68	63	JENOA	ITALY	1,766,605
69	61	SOUTHAMPTON	UK	1,710,000
70	58	SEATTLE	USA	1,704,492
71	72	INCHEON	SOUTH KOREA	1,703,362
72	73	FREE PORT	BAHAMAS	1,698,000
73	70	SAN JUAN	USA	1,684,883
74	65	CHARLESTON	USA	1,635,535
75	82	YANTAI	CHINA	1,531,500
76	80	MONTREAL	CANADA	1,473,914
77	74	BANGKOK	THAILAND	1,451,951
78	75	LAS PALNAS	SPAIN	1,429,547
79	77	MANZANILLO	MEXICO	1,409,782
80	86	HAIFA	ISRAEL	1,395,900
81	76	CONSTANTZA	ROMANIA	1,380,935
82	90	NANJING	CHINA	1,292,100
83	89	DAMMAM	SAUDI ARABIA	1,247,039
84	85	LA SPEZIA	ITALY	1,246,139
85	83	TAICHUNG	TAIWAN	1,239,412
86	95	DAMIETTA	EGYPT	1,236,502
87	96	ALEXANDRIA	EGYPT	1,228,858
88	93	QUANZHOU	CHINA	1,206,700
89	92	CALLAO	PERU	1,203,315
90	91	CHENNAI	INDIA	1,199,618
91	87	KARACHI	PAKISTAN	1,190,000
92	84	FUZHOU	CHINA	1,173,459
93	81	ZHONGSHAN	CHINA	1,136,300
94	88	HONULULU	USA	1,124,388
95	98	CHITTAGONG	BANGLADESH	1,069,999
96	97	CARTAGENA	COLOMBIA	1,064,915
97	104	DUISBURG	GERMANY	1,006,000
98	99	EVERGLADES	USA	985,095
99	103	BRISBANE	AUSTRALIA	975,235
100	100	BEIRUT	LEBANON	947,021