DOP Dredger: Design, Construction, Sale - Damen - Damen Group
Damen dredging equipment launches new DOP Dredger series. Damen Dredging Equipment has launched a new DOP Dredger Series following the success of the DOP submersible dredge pump, which has proved its versatility across the globe. Damen has built more than 20 DOP dredgers on a one-off basis and at least 380 DOP pumps.
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DOP Submersible Dredge Pump 450 - Damen Group
DOP Submersible Dredge Pump 450L with sand mining head August 2018 A complete dredging package was delivered for South Korean sand mining operations. DOP Submersible Dredge Pump 450L April 2017 For an off shore sand mining operation at a dredging depth of -70 m, a dredge package including DOP450l was delivered.
Damen launches the first Middle East-built modularly built
The CSD650 is a standard suction dredger, built for replenishing stock. Usually, these large dredgers are built at the Damen Dredging Equipment yard in Nijkerk, the Netherlands. This dredger was built in the Middle East to ensure short lead times and low transport costs for the local market.
Damen Dredging Equipment - Damen Group
Damen Dredging Equipment provides, as it has done for the past 75 years, high-end innovative solutions to the challenges dredging contractors face. Modularly built dredgers and the variety of dredging components available meet all the tough conditions faced by the dredging industry.
- What is the Damen dredging equipment yard?
- The Damen Dredging Equipment yard is the main production location of dredgers and dredging equipment within the Damen Shipyards Group. The yard also accommodates the main stock of dredging equipment, including cutter suction dredgers, booster stations, DOP submersible dredge pumps and their various options.
- What types of dredgers are available?
- An extensive standard range of powerful and robust dredgers is available, such as cutter suction dredgers, DOP dredgers, trailing suction pipe systems and dredging components. All equipment is based on in-house designed dredge pumps, the Damen dredge pump.
- Where are Damen dredging tools made?
- The company, founded in the early 1940's, both designs and manufactures its dredging equipment at the Nijkerk yard. Following the good Damen tradition, a major part of the product range has been standardised. Hence the wide range of standard components is used to compose customised dredging tools.
- What is a DOP dredger?
- For all of them the DOP Dredger is the solution: the submerged dredge pump ensures a high mixture concentration, and the dredge can be configured and retrofitted following the dredging activities. Sedimentation at hydropower dams is a natural occurrence. Rivers transport silt, sand and gravel downstream, depositing their cargo at the dam.
- Who is assembling a DOP dredger?
- SPI Servicios Portuarios Integrados for Mar del Plata port in Argentina has acquired a DOP Dredger component package from Damen Shipyards Group. The Argentinian shipyard will build major components and assemble the dredger.
- Which dredging tools are in stock?
- It is not only stationary dredgers that are in stock at the Damen Dredging Equipment yard. The DOP submersible dredge pump is another series of standard dredging tools that are readily available, including their options as alternative suction heads, hoses etc. The dredge pump stock ensures fast delivery of customised dredging systems.
