March 08, 2021
Machines at work: Dredgers are specialised and complex vessels with highly integrated technical components ss kumar - SS KUMAR
Machines at work: Dredgers are specialised and complex vessels with highly integrated technical components ss kumar - SS KUMAR×
World’s biggest dredger maker IHC Holland shares tech with Cochin Shipyard
Cochin Shipyard Ltd has pulled off the impossible by coaxing the world’s biggest dredger maker, the Dutch company IHC Holland BV, to share technology, design and expertise to locally build specialised and complex vessels used for deepening and maintaining the channel of ports.
The ‘operational and technological knowhow’ in dredger construction, particularly the large size and high-end Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers (TSHD) are “closely held” in Europe, primarily by Dutch firms, making IHC a global giant in the field.
Major port trusts can award dredging works to DCI on nomination basis
January 01, 2021
Draft dredging guidelines specify when this can be done
Centre-owned major port trusts will have to give dredging works on nomination basis (without tender) to Dredging Corporation of India Ltd (DCI) according to the draft dredging guidelines for major ports prepared by the ministry of ports, shipping and waterways.
“Major Ports may entrust a dredging project to a ports’ owned company, in which it owns controlling share, on nomination basis on approval of Board of Trustees/ Directors of the Port,” says the draft prepared by the ministry and circulated for public consultation.