en.Wedoany.com Reported - German trailing suction hopper dredger Hegemann V recently returned to the Kooiman Marine Group shipyard in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands, where it was built, to complete rudder propeller maintenance.

The dredger, measuring 75.9 meters in length and 15.8 meters in width, was built by Kooiman Marine Group for German shipowner Hegemann GmbH and delivered in February 2023. It is equipped with a starboard suction pipe and an inboard dredge pump, with a hopper capacity of 1,500 cubic meters, which can reach 1,930 cubic meters when loading lower-density materials. In addition to discharging material through bottom doors, the vessel can also pump material via a tandem dredge pump from side or bow discharge outlets. The vessel has a beam of 16 meters and a summer deadweight tonnage of 2,934 tonnes.

The vessel's first assignment was in May 2023, dredging the Port of Wilhelmshaven. The project involved removing 2 million cubic meters of dredged sediment and disposing of it in a designated offshore area. The shipowner, Hegemann GmbH, is a company under Germany's Detlef Hegemann Group, specializing in maintenance dredging, beach nourishment, land reclamation, and port development projects.

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