Dutch design firm to help develop new hopper dredger for US Army Corps of Engineers

Vessel construction at some of the Florida facilities of the Eastern Shipbuilding Group

Florida shipbuilder the Eastern Shipbuilding Group and Netherlands-based marine engineering company Royal IHC have formed a strategic partnership with the objective of designing and constructing a highly automated, medium hopper dredger for use by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The dredger will be built at Eastern Shipbuilding’s Allanton and Port St Joe facilities. […]

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Eastern Shipbuilding partners with Royal IHC for new hopper dredge

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Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. (ESG) and Royal IHC have formed a strategic partnership to design and construct a highly automated medium-class hopper dredge for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) that will replace the now 57-year-old dredge McFarland. Slated for delivery in 2027, the new hopper dredge will be constructed at ESG’s Allanton and Port St. Joe, Florida shipyards.

Building on a history of successful collaboration, ESG and Royal IHC aim to deliver an unparalleled dredging...

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COLUMN | Winner takes it all: Boskalis binges with record profits, as Boluda takes silver and McDermott gets sued (again) [Offshore Accounts]

Whilst the first big consolidator of this offshore upcycle was Tidewater, rapidly followed by ADNOC and AD Ports of Abu Dhabi, Europe is also experiencing a quiet wave of consolidation. Driving this is the biggest of the “Big Four” lowlands dredging and offshore companies, Boskalis. But whereas the gains in Tidewater have been open to […]

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Boskalis “mega hopper” dredge will be first MAN 49/60 marine application

The 31,000 cubic meter capacity “mega hopper” trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD) ordered at Royal IHC by Royal Boskalis last year will be powered by three MAN 49/60 engines. This is the first marine application of MAN Energy Solutions’ most powerful diesel engine.

The MAN 49/60 successfully passed its type approval test in March 2023 and features a high power-per-cylinder of 1,300 kW, reducing the number of installed cylinders necessary to meet customer power demands. While in this particular...

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Boskalis orders a methanol-ready megahopper

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Two leading Dutch players are again pushing dredge technology forward. Following an extensive design phase that began in 2020, Boskalis has signed a contract with Royal IHC for a giant methanol-ready trailing suction trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD). With a hopper volume of 31,000 cubic meters (40,546 cubic yards), it’s being described by Boskalis as a megahopper.

To be built at Royal IHC’s Krimpen aan den IJssel shipyard in the Netherlands, the vessel’s energy-efficient design will feature...

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VESSEL REVIEW | Lotos-1 – Versatile sand dredger delivered to Russian inland waterway authority

The Southern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Centre, a division under Russia’s state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation, has handed over a self-propelled dredger to local shipowner State Transport Leasing Company for operation by the country’s Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transportation (Rosmorrechflot). Lotos-1 is the first to be built under the Project 93.159 series of bucket-wheel […]

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VESSEL REVIEW | R. B. Weeks – Second large hopper dredger for New Jersey marine contractor

Cranford, New Jersey-based marine projects company Weeks Marine (WMI) recently took delivery of a new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) built by the Eastern Shipbuil ..

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