A trailing suction hopper dredger[1] (TSHD) is a type of ship capable of maintaining navigable waterways, deepening the maritime canals that are threatened to become silted, constructing new land elsewhere or replacing sand eroded by storms or wave action on the beaches.

Boskalis deploys trailing suction hoppers dredgers for the construction and maintenance of ports and waterways as well as land reclamation and coastal defense and riverbank protection. Trailing suction hopper dredgers are equipped with one or two suction pipes ending in drag heads.

Learn how a trailing suction hopper dredger works. The name trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) refers to the fact that this type of vessel dredges while slowly sailing, trailing one or two suction arms off the side of the hull. At the entrance of …

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A trailing suction hopper dredger dredges loose material and soft soils such as sand, gravel, sludge or clay. One or two suction pipes are lowered on the seabed and the drag head is trailed over the bottom. A pump system sucks up a mixture of soil and water and discharges it in the ‘hopper’ or hold of the ship.

We design and build a variety of standardised and custom-built trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs). A hopper dredger is a versatile dredger that unite dredging, transport and discharge in a single piece of equipment. Our TSHDs are ideal for many dredging jobs, such as land reclamation, port maintenance and aggregates dredging.

In contrast, one of the smallest TSHDs has a hopper capacity of only 3,400 m³, a deadweight of 4,800 tonne with a length of only 93.3 m and a loaded draught of 5.0 m.

Whether you need a small trailing suction hopper dredger (THSD) for coastal and harbour maintenance or a large THSD for land reclamation, we’ve got it.

This standardised TSHD is a cost-effective solution with shorter delivery times compared to a custom-built dredger with similar capabilities. Why choose the Beagle ®? focus on uptime and maintainability. With the agile design each Beagle® trailing suction hopper dredger can be adapted to perform in a wide range of conditions, including tough soils.

We caught up with Faber recently the same way everyone seems to connect these days, via a video chat, to discuss C-Job’s new in-house developed trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD) series, a series designed to fill the gap between standard designs and fully tailored vessels.