Description

TRAILING SUCTION HOPPER DREDGER
Principal Dimensions and Characteristics
Year Built: 2013
Length over all: 105m (344ft)
Length between perpendiculars: 85.2m (280ft)
Molded Beam: 19m (62ft)
Molded Depth: 8m (26ft)
Design Draft: 4.8m (16ft)
Dredging Draft: 7.24m (24ft)
Hopper Capacity: 5,586 cubic meters (7,306 cubic yards)
Soil Loading Capacity: 7,260 tons
Maximum Dredging Depth: 30m (98ft)

Two trailing suction pipes with three lifting points
Totally 16 conic hopper bottom doors of 2,460mm (97 inches) and 16 hopper self-emptying doors, arranged in two lines.

Two overflow tubes of DN 1,360mm (54 inches) with a stork of 3,000mm (118 inches) to adjust the hopper capacity.
Hopper loading time: Approx. 56min.
Time of hopper dumping by hopping door: 5 min.
Time of pumping Ashore by self-emptying system: 70 min.
(hopper filled with medium and fine sand, 1.3t/m³ in density, pumping distance approx. 1,500m ‹4,921›).

Full Load Navigation Speed: 11.5 knots
Dredging Speed: 2 - 2.5 knots
(two suction pipes dredge, converse water current speed 4 knots)

Accommodations:
Complement: 36P