The 15,000 cubic meter capacity hopper dredge Frederick Paup will be the largest TSHD in the United States. When completed, the dredger will operate primarily along the U.S. The new dredge is scheduled to be fully operational by spring 2023. It will be highly automated with a diesel-electric power system, and built to the requirements of classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).
of Seattle-has a length of 420 feet, breadth of 81 feet and draft of 28.5 feet. The 15,000 cubic yard hopper dredge-designed in collaboration with Hockema Whalen Myers Associates, Inc. The self-propelled TSHD Frederick Paup will be the largest in the United States, representing Manson’s single biggest investment in its 115-year history, the company said. in September announced a contract with Keppel AmFELS to build a new hopper dredge at the shipbuilder’s facility in Brownsville, Texas. It is the second TSHD Eastern is building for Weeks Marine, following the Magdalen delivered in December of 2017.Ĭontinuing the dredge building boom currently underway in the U.S., Manson Construction Co. Weeks, ordered by the Cranford, N.J.-based marine construction and dredging contractor in April, is scheduled for delivery in early 2023. The new 6,540 cubic meter capacity dredge R.B. In August, Eastern Shipbuilding Group cut first steel for a new trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD) it is building for Weeks Marine, and the keel was laid the following month at the builder’s Allanton Shipyard in Panama City, Fla. Presently on order and under construction is a raft of in-demand equipment that will help to keep America’s ports and waterways open, safeguard coastal communities and maintain the vital flow of maritime commerce to, from and through the U.S.
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