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Another Dual-Fuel Vessel on Order for DEME
Belgian dredging, environmental, and marine engineering group, DEME, Monday announced it has contracted with specialied maritime vessel builder Royal IHC to build a next generation trailing suction hopper dredger.
According to DEME the vessel, the Bonny River will feature diesel and liquified natural gas (LNG) dual-fuel engines to ensure optimization of fuel consumption and a minimal CO2 footprint.
The ship is the sixth that DEME has on order.
The order has been placed at Royal IHC, but the ship will be built by Cosco at its shipyard in Guangdong, China.
According to a press release the vessel will be "trendsetting" in that it will be able to work at greater depths and further offshore, being able to extract sand at more than 100 metres deep.
By minimizing turbidity generated by process water the vessel is also able to to dredge in environmentally vulnerable areas.
In April 2015 Ship & Bunker reported DEME's would build the world's first LNG powered dredgers.
