The Netherlands-based IHC Merwede has secured contracts worth €350m for a range of dredging and offshore vessels and equipment.
Under the terms of the contract, the company’s offshore dredging division will deliver a large trailing suction hopper dredger, 13 units that will be supplied by IHC Beaver dredgers, as well as a cutter suction dredger training simulator.
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The dredging division has won contracts to construct a 300t pipelaying vessel, as well as a J-Lay pipelaying system and a tandem mooring system.
IHC Merwede will commence construction of the trailing suction hopper dredger for a Chinese customer, CCCC Guangzhou Dredging (GDC).
Said to be the latest addition to GDC’s dredging fleet, the hopper dredger will be built at a Dutch shipyard.
The remaining 13 dredging vessels will comprise 11 standard IHC Beaver cutter suction dredgers and a Delta Multi Craft standard work boat, as well as a booster station.
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By GlobalDataIHC Merwede has also been commissioned by Huta Marine Works to develop and supply a cutter suction dredger training simulator, which will accompany the delivery of the previously ordered suction dredger that is under construction at the IHC Merwede yard in Kinderdijk, Netherlands.
The simulator will be used by Huta Marine Works during its training courses for operators of the latest cutter suction dredgers in its fleet.
IHC Engineering Business will deliver a 300t pipelaying vessel for Sapura Navegação Marítima with a pipelay spread.
The company also secured an offshore order from Petrofac, which includes the design and construction of a 2,000t capacity J-Lay pipelaying system to be installed in water depths of up to 3,000m on a new deep-water construction vessel in 2016 to lay 36in diameter pipe.
IHC Merwede COO Bram Roelse said: "We invest in long-term relationships to provide the best possible solutions, so that our international customers continue to appreciate the reliability and efficiency of our products and services."
Image: Trailing suction hopper dredger. Photo: courtesy of IHC Merwede B.V.
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