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(04.b) Aberdeen Capital Project Photo
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Aberdeen Capital Works

vertical and +10m horizontally with a final bar sweep. The project was carried out using the trailing suction hopper dredger 'Crestway', to remove the soft material from the outer approaches, with the backhoe dredger 'Nordic Giant' and split barges removing the remaining clays and rock. Trial...-treatment. Strengthening modifications were made to a 9.5m³ rock bucket and, by careful positioning of the dredger over high waters in relation

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(04.a) Cardiff Maintenance Project Photo
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Cardiff Term Maintenance Contract

planning and preparatory works, including relocating the channel marker buoys to give sufficient area for the dredger to manoeuvre. These physical restraints prevent the trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Sospan Dau’ reaching all the necessary areas, so a plough / survey vessel is utilised to move silt from the tight spots into these areas where it can be removed by the dredger. The County Council of the City and County of Cardiff Boskalis Westminster

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Coastal defense and
riverbank protection

. Trailing suction hopper dredger Trailing suction hopper dredgers can fill their own holds (hoppers) by sucking material from the seabed using a trailing suction head fitted to pipes that trail over the bed as the ship sails. Cutter section dredger Dredging with a cutter suction dredger takes place while the vessel is moored with spuds or anchors and consists of powerful cutting action combined with suction. Backhoe dredger A backhoe

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Press release

Boskalis strengthens position on German market and closes Strabag Wasserbau acquisition

. The most important assets are two young trailing suction hopper dredgers with a capacity of 7,350 m3 each, a large modern backhoe dredger and four self...' share of the contract carries a value of more than EUR 35 million. The dredging of three million cubic meters of sand by a medium-sized trailing suction hopper dredger forms part of the activities that are expected to commence at the end of 2016 and will take two years. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

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Press release

Boskalis strengthens position on German market and closes Strabag Wasserbau acquisition

. The most important assets are two young trailing suction hopper dredgers with a capacity of 7,350 m3 each, a large modern backhoe dredger and four self...' share of the contract carries a value of more than EUR 35 million. The dredging of three million cubic meters of sand by a medium-sized trailing suction hopper dredger forms part of the activities that are expected to commence at the end of 2016 and will take two years. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

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(04.b) Southampton Western Docks Channel Widening Project Photo
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Southampton Western Docks Channel Widening

consisting mainly of clay and silt. The heavy clay was dredged using backhoe dredger, ‘Magnor,’ and the silt was dredged using trailing suction hopper dredger, ‘Causeway.’ Associated British Ports (ABP) Southampton Boskalis Westminster Ltd

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