food 'n family. >>> meet the "st. petersburg." a 750-foot-long norwegian cargo ship. a car carrier that's run by a company called hoegh auto liners. this is a huge ship. weighs nearly 70,000 tons. the "st. petersburg" was on its way from madagascar to melbourne, australia, when the australian government announced last night commercial satellite images showed what appeared to be large-scale debris in the ocean off the coast of australia.