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What are dredges?

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"Dredge" is the general usage in America and ,,dredger" is used in most parts of the world.

Dredger is defined as a vessel that is used to excavate the sediments from the seabed with the purpose of:

  • Creating new harbors, waterways, bridges, docks
  • Maintaining the channels or waterways clean
  • Land reclamation
  • Mining on the seabed
  • Beach nourishment
  • Deepening the waterways
  • Extracting minerals from underwater deposits
  • Removing polluted sediments from rivers, harbors basins

The dredgers can be classified in 2 categories:

  1. Mechanical Dredgers: involves the use of grab or bucket to loosen the material taken from the seabed
  2. Hydraulic Dredgers: they are loosening the material through a pipe system connected to a centrifugal pump
  3. Amphibian Dredgers
1. Mechanical Dredgers
  1. Bucket Dredger
  2. Grab Dredger
  3. Backhoe Dredger
2. Hydraulic Dredgers
  1. Suction Dredger
  2. CSD - Cutter Suction Dredger
  3. TSHD - Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger
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