Most of the time, the main and most common objective is to deepen certain parts of rivers, harbors, canals or sea.īefore a port or canal is created, the area has to be dredged so huge ships can enter and leave safely. There are many reasons why dredging is carried out. They are placed on top of self propelled barge or barge towed by tugboat to be able to conduct dredging in bodies of water. Examples of these are excavators or cranes with a clam shell bucket. Other dredgers are heavy construction equipment found on land. They have built in power and can move on their own, even sailing from one port to another Some dredgers are purposely built ships for the sole task of dredging. They have various designs depending on their capability, purpose and method of extraction.
Dredgers are watercraft that carry out dredging.
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