BOKA Vanguard

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BOKA Vanguard, formerly Dockwise Vanguard, is a semisubmersible heavy-lift ship owned and operated by Dockwise. It is the largest heavy-lift ship ever built, and is able to carry cargoes up to 110,000 tonnes (110,000 long tons; 120,000 short tons). Dockwise Vanguard was designed to move offshore oil and gas facilities, but can also carry other ships and act as an offshore dry-dock facility. As offshore oil and gas facilities have grown in size, Dockwise saw a market for a ship that could carry the largest floating oil rigs to their destinations, reducing time and costs of transportation and allowing rigs to be built economically in a shipyard. In conjunction with Finland-based Deltamarin, they designed a ship called the "type-O heavy-lift vessel", later renamed Dockwise Vanguard following an in-house competition. In 2014, Dockwise started a feasibility study into a larger successor to Dockwise Vanguard.

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