SEOUL: South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has floated a tanker-shaped vessel tagged as the world’s largest “floating facility” with a length greater than the height of the Empire State Building in New York.
A Samsung spokesman said yesterday that the 488m-long floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) platform – named Prelude – was set in the water at its southern shipyard in Geoje on Nov 30.
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