Posted on April 16, 2020
Scheduled dredging work has been done at Timaru’s port over several days.
The dredger, known as the Albatross, was stationed in Timaru where it had been keeping the main channel into the port at required depths of about 10.8 metres, PrimePort Timaru chief executive Phil Melhopt said.
The Albatross is owned by Netherlands-based company Dutch Dredging, which won the 10-year contract to conduct dredging operations for five New Zealand ports, including Timaru’s, in November 2016.
The dredge is a trailer-suction dredge, which sucks up sediment, sand, mud and shingle from the ocean floor, and then deposits it to one of two spoil grounds, which are between 1.5km and 3.5km away from the port.
The dredge’s work includes removing sediment from the sea floor to maintain the depth for ships going in and out of Timaru’s port.
It left for Bluff on Saturday.
Source: stuff
