Other High-Tech Dredging Equipment

Dredging vessels and equipment come in a variety of specialised types, large and small, but nowadays most are equipped with state-of-the-art technologies.

Jack-up Pontoons

Jack-up pontoons are self-elevating platforms used to carry dredging equipment, such as cranes, boosters or soil investigation equipment to work sites.

Grab or Clamshell Dredgers

Grab or clamshells dredgers are very commonly used, rather simple and easy to understand stationary vessels, with and without propulsion.

Fall Pipe Vessels

Fall pipe vessels operate in deep water covering offshore oil and gas pipelines, levelling the seabed or applying scour protection.

Environmental Equipment

Environmental dredging equipment is specially designed or adapted to remediate waterways that contain contaminated sediments.

Dustpan Dredgers

Dustpan dredgers are plain hydraulic suction dredgers that function like giant vacuum cleaners and are primarily used on river systems.

Dipper Dredgers

The dipper dredger is a powered bucket mounted on a barge which scoops material with a forward motion like a shovel toward the dredger.

Cutter Suction Dredgers

A cutter suction dredger is a hydraulic dredger that uses centrifugal pumps with a rotating cutter head to loosen, lift and transport dredged material.