Mighty Machines

Trading pine trees for palm fronds, we rendezvous with a Hawaii-based C-17 and her flight crew. We're there as they head out over the ocean to pick up Patriot missile batteries from a tiny mid-Pacific airstrip at Kwajalein Atoll, for delivery to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It's a gruelling, round-the-clock, real-world mission as the C-17 lives up to its name of "Globemaster," deliveri

The Hawk has to sink before she swims in order to transport one of the world's largest oil drilling rigs halfway around the world.

Algoma Equinox is built to haul more cargo faster, using less fuel than other Lakers. Tonight, her crew scrambles to transport grain from one end of the world's largest inland waterway to the other.

In Norway's largest oil and gas field, the Edda Freya repairs and replaces critical gas platform pipelines. It is a dangerous job, and one false move could mean disaster.

One train. One driver. 3,000 tons of timber a day. Timber hauling is big business for Sweden's economy, and it takes a mighty train and some strong-willed men and women to pull it off.

Just off the coast of Malaysia, the ultimate heavy-lift pipe laying vessel, Sapura 3500, has just three short weeks to build an offshore gas platform in the South China Sea.