Royal IHC designs and builds a variety of standardised and custom-built dredging vessels, such as cutter suction dredgers and trailing suction hopper dredgers.
IHC has more than 150 years of experience in designing and building efficient and integrated dredge equipment. Thanks to our continuous industry research, we are able to offer optimal solutions to the challenges of modern dredging techniques.
Dredge equipment is used to build, modify and upgrade hydraulic dredgers. It provides a range of benefits for our global customers, including higher productivity, reduced operating costs, optimum efficiency and minimal downtime. As a result, it has also contributed to the profitability of various international dredging projects.
There is a growing need for dredging in many applications, both large and small, in either capital or maintenance works. Our broad spectrum of dredging vessels is ideal for the completion of all types of dredging projects, such as:
Our team of highly skilled professionals can provide a broad range of advisory services based on more than 70 years of theoretical and operational experience. We support our customers in the preparation, operation and optimisation of dredging installations and equipment, dredging activities and other areas related to the field, with consultancy and training.
After completion and successful sea trials, the 8,000m3 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) GHASHA – owned by National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) from Abu Dhabi – has left The Netherlands to start her first project in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Royal IHC (IHC) handed over the 3,000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger MONT MANDARA to Cameroon’s Port Authority of Douala (PAD). This successful delivery follows PAD's acquisition of an IHC Beaver 50® cutter suction dredger and a DMC work boat in 2019.
Royal IHC (IHC) has been awarded the contract for the engineering and equipment delivery for a new 6,540m³ Twin Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) for Weeks Marine Inc. (Weeks). This is an identical vessel to the MAGDALEN that was delivered in 2017.
