Chennai
State owned company Dredging Corporation of India would get
two more dredgers in the next two years that would enhance its efficiency to
take up 80 per cent of the maintenance dredging works of Indian ports.
Speaking after dedicating Rs 528 crore Dredger XIX at Ennore
Port on Saturday, Vasan said the second dredger would join the fleet next year
and third by 2014.
Dredging Corporation of India, the premier dredging company
of the country and sixth largest in the world is owning a fleet of 14 Dredgers.
With
the addition of three dredgers the strength would increase to 17.
Chairman and managing director of Dredging Corporation of
India captain D K Mohanty said that after a gap of 12 years DCI is buying a
dredger and he thanked the ministry for processing the request for more
dredgers.
The Memorandum of understanding for the first two dredgers
was signed on February 2010 with IHC Merwede, Netherlands and the third one was
signed last year. The total cost of the three dredgers is worth 1,570 crore.
Dredge XIX is a Trailer Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) having
a Hopper capacity of 5500 cubic metres. It has capacity to dredge upto a depth
of 25 metres. Dredge XIX has a manoeuvring speed of 14.9 knots to operate in
strong currents and has the capacity of delivering high productivity,
reliability and effective dredging operation as well as low power consumption
and operational cost. It is fully equipped to deliver all kind of marine
services like maintenance dredging, shore pumping, rain bowing, beach
nourishment and land reclamation etc.
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