If you're like me, and have never really spent any time around a big machine, the Hanjin Miami is a wonder of the world: huge, powerful, like a floating power plant.  7000 containers, 25 knots, it makes its own fresh water.

And it's so efficient.  And neat.  And effective.

Three things I'm really not.

Built in Korea, by Hyundai.  Owned by a German consortium which operates it.  Chartered by Korean shipping giant Hanjin.  There's nothing on it that's American, except the DVDs in the crew's lounge.

It's hard to look at a machine like this and think, "Why don't Americans build ships like this anymore?"