Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment. Possible reasons for dredging include improving existing water features; reshaping land and water features to alter drainage, navigabil
Excavator dredger in Neeme harbour, Estonia (April 2023)
Reconstruction of the mud-drag by Leonardo da Vinci (Manuscript E, folio 75 v.)
Reconstruction of the mud-drag
The dredge drag head of a suction dredge barge on the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland
Jan De Nul Group is a family-owned company, originally from Belgium, with a financial headquarters in Luxembourg. Its four main activities are Offshore Energy, Dredging Solutions, Construction Project
Dredging
…the hoppers. Some dredges also self-offload using drag buckets and conveyors. As of 2008 the largest trailing suction hopper dredgers in the world were Jan De Nul's Cristobal Colon (launched 4 July 2008) and her sister ship Leiv Eriksson (launched 4 September 2009). Main design specifications for the Cristobal…
The trailing suction hopper dredger Alexander von Humboldt