Posted on June 29, 2020
This is the boat tasked with helping to protect the future operations of Sunderland’s docks and river.
Port of Sunderland has brought in the 85-metre long trailing suction hopper dredger UKD Marlin to clear silt from the river floor in the mouth of the river and around the port itself.
She is designed for use in the open sea and estuaries with the manoeuvrability to work in enclosed docks and can release the materials gathered via bottom doors or pump it ashore.
UKD Marlin is being helped by UKD Seahorse, a 25-metre Multicat, a multi-purpose dredging support vessel which has bed-levelling, buoy handling and survey capability, and a Cheetah catamaran hydrographic survey boat called 66K.
Source: sunderlandecho
