Currently a hopper dredger is being built in Canada which will perform the maintenance dredging activities of the St Lawrence Seaway. Ocean’s companies, the shipbuilder and future dredging contractor, have opted for a proven design, fitted out with a Damen trailing pipe and other Damen dredging gear.

The self propelled 62 m long 1.180 m3 split hopper dredger will be fitted out with a 500 mm trailing pipe for dredging at max – 305 m. The vessel, built under Germanischer Lloyd and provided with a Transport Canada certificate, has a Damen dredge pump doing some 5.500 m3/h requiring 1.300 HP. Other elements of the Damen delivery are the overflows, the jetwater monitors, the dredging instrumentation and the bow coupling unit. As an exception to the rule Damen Dredging also supplies the steel package for the hull.