Films by Tobias Bechtloff

Germany 2005, 52 min
by Michael Wolff (fact+film)

Even in 1993 Vulkan manager Josef Klar warned about container ships with more than 6.000 TEU. A TEU is a standard container with a length of 20 feet. Klar claimed that vessels of this size could not be competitive. The largest container vessels built today carry 8,000 TEU, have a length of 335 metres and a width of over 42 metres, corresponding to 3 football fields. These giants are driven by the biggest diesel engines possible nowadays, with nearly 100,000 hp, and are designed for a high speed

Germany 2002
by Michael Wolff (fact+film)

Kansai was the first airport built at great effort and expense in the sea. The gigantic structure and symbol of sophisticated Japanese engineering, which started operation on a man-made island measuring five square kilometres in 1994, soon made negative headlines, however. The island slowly started to sink. In spite of the disaster in Kansai, several Asian airports followed its example. The new “Incheon” airport in Korea, the “Chek Lap Kok“ airport in Hong Kong as well as the “Changi“ airport in