With a recent supply of an SGT 600 heavy duty dredger to Giorgio Dredging Nigeria Ltd, Italdraghe continues a trail of successes with dredge supplies to Africa, a venture that began first in the early 1970s when it supplied a small SGT 200 B cutter suction dredger to another Italian company that had won a Nigerian tender for a range of construction projects, including dredging work in Lagos.

Progress with that first supply opened the eyes of the founders of the company to the huge possibilities being offered at that time by certain African countries and consequently Italdraghe, which up until then had focussed mainly on its domestic market, decided to invest significant financial and human resources in the area. It has since supplied dredgers to eleven different countries across the continent.