Van Oord Strengthens Fleet With TSHD Contender

As a Dutch contracting company, Van Oord specializes in dredging and land reclamation has acquired trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) ‘Contender’, which has a hopper capacity of 2,680 m3 from Dutch Abeko Marine.

This purchase allows Van Oord to strengthen its fleet in the small trailing suction hopper dredger segment.

“Dravo S.A., our Spanish subsidiary, will deploy the vessel in the Mediterranean and northwest Europe to solidify our market position,” said Executive Board member Niels de Bruijn.

The Contender was built in 1998. Abeko Marine transferred the vessel into a trailing suction hopper dredger in 2011.

The vessel is 88 m long and 16 m wide. With a draught of less than 6 m, it is especially suited to dredging operations in shallow water.