Yeah, distiller is right… speed is an issue if you want to use airships to replace aircraft. The most efficient way to get a 400 ton Turbine blade with all its bits attached from the where it is made to the other side of the world would be to use an airship to carry it from where it is made to the nearest port where it can be directly loaded onto a ship… the ship can carry the 16 turbine blades from that port to the nearest port to the hydro electric dam the turbine blades are for and from that port another airship could carry each turbine from the ship directly to the site where it is needed. This would be the cheapest option probably. If speed was an issue… ie it is costing you 1 million dollars a day that you have to wait for each item then sending the airships directly from manufacturer to the delivery point would probably be faster but I would expect a ship to be cheaper than an airship for round the world transport. For across a country an Airship all the way might be faster and cheaper… depends on the situation… but the airship either way would be very useful and simplify the transport process.
Even today 120 ton mechanical parts are loaded onto An-124s for transport to places all over Russia in one piece. The larger the transport devices payload the easier the transfer because you don’t need to break the object down into really small pieces. Airships don’t need roads or landing strips which is wonderful for jobs like taking 1,000 ton reflecting mirrors for a giant telescope that is of course situated miles from anywhere and at the top of a large mountain where the only access road is narrow and treacherous. There are lots of jobs like that it could be used for.

Even just taking all the equipment and materials to create an airstrip in the middle of no where in one trip including buildings for those working on the project.

The control issue is reduced by using thrust vectoring.

Sorry I wasn’t clear… I meant gale force strong winds… certainly many airships old and new had some method of directing thrust for manouver capability though I suspect the modern methods would result in a very sophisticated aircraft with stationkeeping ability like some ships would be outstandingly useful for large components delivered directly to the construction site and actually used to position and fit the component… so not only would it act as a transport vehicle it would also be acting as a mobile crane… which could be another use for it too.