How to raise the autonomy level of the dredging process
Shipbuilder Royal IHC is working on the development of autonomous trailing suction hopper dredgers. This will not mean unmanned, as R&D engineer Digital Business Systems Jeroen van Stappen points out, but the goal is to...Read more
Jan De Nul adds fifth Ultra-Low Emission dredger to its fleet
Singaporean shipyard Keppel Offshore & Marine has delivered the 6000-m3 trailing suction hopper dredger Ortelius to Jan De Nul Group. This vessel is an identical copy of the Ultra-Low Emission vessel Sanderus, in service since...Read more
Royal IHC delivers dredger Ghasha to NMDC
After completion and sea trials, the 8000-cubic-metre trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Ghasha has left the Netherlands to start its first project in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Royal IHC built the vessel for National...Read more
Royal IHC delivers 3000-m3 dredger to Port Authority of Douala
Royal IHC has handed over the 3000-cubic-metre trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Mont Mandara to Cameroon’s Port Authority of Douala (PAD). The delivery completes the PAD fleet, following its acquisition of an IHC Beaver 50...Read more
Kooiman to build 1500-m3 trailing suction hopper dredger Hegemann V
Kooiman Marine Group will design and build a new trailing suction hopper dredger for Detlef Hegemann Aktiengesellschaft. The ship is designed to execute multiple types of dredging activities on specific locations.Read more
Barkmeijer delivers the Anchorage – a closer look at the dredger’s design
Barkmeijer Shipyards has delivered the Anchorage to De Hoop Terneuzen. This trailing suction hopper dredger has been designed to dredge sand and gravel up to a depth of sixty metres, to screen this to the...Read more
IHC built dredger Meuse River leaves for second sea trial
Trailing suction hopper dredger Meuse River has left Neptune Shipyards in Hardinxveld for a second sea trial on the North Sea, which is to last until 19 June. The ship was built at Royal IHC’s...Read more