A dredger builder’s view on the future of dredging

• Introduction
• Changing conditions and new trends
• Hoppers – scale up effects
• Hoppers – cost effective designs
• Hoppers – operational constraints
• Hoppers - automation and control
• Cutter suction dredgers – development trends
• Heavy duty cutters operating in swell
• Large cutter dredgers – pump development
• Large cutter dredgers - automation and control
• Smaller cutters – standard concepts
• Cutter dredgers – operational efficiency
• Future challenge for life cycle support
• IHC’s future as market leader for the supply of dredging equipment

Introduction
Dredging is an industry that is constantly transforming. It has changed significantly over the last decade. Traditional dredging activities like construction and maintaining ports and harbors, desilting of drainage and irrigation channels, keeping reservoirs at depths and removing sediments from waterways still are important. Yet these activities are now surpassed by other applications of dredging technology. Reclamation is an important example in this respect, but other applications, such as infrastructural work for offshore winning of oil & gas, environmental clean-up, mining of valuable minerals and aggregates from inland and offshore deposits deserve mentioning here as well.

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