March 08, 2021
Machines at work: Dredgers are specialised and complex vessels with highly integrated technical components ss kumar - SS KUMAR
Machines at work: Dredgers are specialised and complex vessels with highly integrated technical components ss kumar - SS KUMAR×
World’s biggest dredger maker IHC Holland shares tech with Cochin Shipyard
Cochin Shipyard Ltd has pulled off the impossible by coaxing the world’s biggest dredger maker, the Dutch company IHC Holland BV, to share technology, design and expertise to locally build specialised and complex vessels used for deepening and maintaining the channel of ports.
The ‘operational and technological knowhow’ in dredger construction, particularly the large size and high-end Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers (TSHD) are “closely held” in Europe, primarily by Dutch firms, making IHC a global giant in the field.