Jan De Nul Orders World’s Most Powerful Cutter Suction Dredger

Luxembourg-based dredging and marine development specialist Jan De Nul Group says it has positioned an order for world’s largest and strongest cutter suction dredger.

The order was positioned on the Croatian shipyard Uljanik Brodogradiliste.

The massive self-propelled cutter suction dredger, often known as JDN8069, was designed in-house by Jan De Nul. The vessel’s whole put in diesel energy can be over 40,000 kW, which is roughly 50% extra highly effective than our J.F.J. De Nul, at present the most important cutter suction dredger on the earth, based on the corporate. The cutter energy quantities to eight,500 kW and the cutter ladder weighs round 2,000 tonnes.

The J.F.J. De Nul has been in operation since 2003 and has 27,240 kW of whole put in diesel energy. The vessel measures 141 meters lengthy by 27.8 meters broad. Its cutter energy is roughly 7,600 kW.

Cutter suction dredgers use a rotating cutter head to chop laborious soil into fragments after which suck the waste into the dredger utilizing pumps. The waste materials can then be pumped ashore by the use of a floating pipeline or loaded right into a break up hopper barge moored alongside.