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Construction
and maintenance
of ports

with spuds or anchors and consists of powerful cutting action combined with suction. Backhoe dredger A backhoe dredger (BHD) is a hydraulic excavator installed on a pontoon. Dredging is executed by the excavator which is mounted on a turntable at the front of the pontoon. The backhoe dredger... dredger Trailing suction hopper dredgers can fill their own holds (hoppers) by sucking material from the seabed using a trailing suction head fitted

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Lowestoft Quay Wall Clearance

Lowestoft Quay Wall Clearance Boskalis Westminster undertook this debris removal for the main contractor using the backhoe dredger Manu Pekka. The work was undertaken on a charter basis, working strictly in accordance with our client’s instruction and supervision. The debris was from... on the quayside to allow removal by others with an onshore excavator. In order to minimise impact on the operation of the port, the dredger had to be moved

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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 trenches...-treatment. Strengthening modifications were made to a 9.5m³ rock bucket and, by careful positioning of the dredger over high waters in relation to the rock

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Coastal defense and
riverbank protection

place while the vessel is moored with spuds or anchors and consists of powerful cutting action combined with suction. Backhoe dredger A backhoe... of the pontoon. The backhoe dredger is mainly used for dredging in shallow or confined waters. Our dredging fleet View our dredging fleet selection Let's.... Trailing suction hopper dredger Trailing suction hopper dredgers can fill their own holds (hoppers) by sucking material from the seabed using

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China shipping container lines' Indian Ocean grounded

of two hopper dredgers, one backhoe dredger and a water injection dredger. For the refloat, significant pulling force was required. To this end, two large

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Jin Tai

Jin Tai The beginning of 2012 involved the salvage case of the backacter bucket dredger ‘JIN TAI’. This backhoe dredger was working... the dredger.  The same morning SMIT Salvage was appointed as salvor and a salvage team was mobilised from Cape Town. After a thorough inspection on site and discussions with the dredger’s owners and the authorities, a two phase salvage operation consisting of a debunkering phase and a refloating phase

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