Trailing suction hopper dredgers

Model Easydredge®, Beagle®, custom-built TSHD

Standardised Easydredge® and Beagle® trailing suction hopper dredgers and custom-built TSHDs for excavating and transporting sand, gravel and silt.

Description

Trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs) excavate and transport materials such as sand, gravel and silt. Royal IHC states it built the first TSHD over 100 years ago and has built over 400 self-propelled standardised and custom-built hopper dredgers.

Key features

Easydredge®: smaller-sized standardised TSHDs that are cost-effective, adaptable and easy to operate
Beagle®: flexible standardised series for a large variety of dredging works
Custom-built TSHDs: for requirements that standardised hopper dredgers cannot meet
Investment in alternative fuels, energy efficiency and automation to reduce hopper dredger emissions

Applications

Maintenance and capital dredging of ports and channels, sand winning and land reclamation.

Specifications

Hopper dredgers built	over 400

YANMAR Main Engine (Medium Speed)

YANMAR medium-speed diesel propulsion engines for commercial ships, workboats and large fishing vessels, supplied and serviced in Turkey by Sakura Marine.

Component

General Propeller

Powertech OFX3 3-Blade Offshore Stainless Propellers

Powertech OFX3 3-blade stainless propellers, 15.25 in diameter, 14–28 in pitch, RH/LH, for 4.75 in gearcase; aggressive cup, high rake and X-cut geometry.

System / Package

Reagan Power & Compression

Reciprocating Compressor Packages

Engine or motor driven reciprocating natural gas compressor packages built to customer specifications with Ariel and Siemens compressors.