Former shipmate Christopher Dale took this photo the other day while working at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in Okpo, Korea.
The crane barge in the photo is the Daewoo 3600. Built in 2006, it is the largest such floating crane barge in Korea with a lifting capacity of 3600 tons.
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