{"id":423472,"date":"2026-01-22T19:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423472\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:24:15","slug":"breaking-news-work-on-tshd-dci-dredge-godavari-nears-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423472\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Work on TSHD DCI Dredge Godavari nears end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of the new IHC Beagle 12.000m3 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) DCI Dredge Godavari at Cochin Shipyard is nearing its completion.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dci-768x524.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>photo courtesy of Jacco Damman LinkedIn<\/p>\n<p>The keel of the dredger \u2013 built in collaboration with Royal IHC for Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCI) \u2013 was laid in September 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Shri Sarbananda Sonowal, Union Minister Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and H.E. Ms Marisa Gerards, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to India, attended the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding on the proven success of the Beagle class dredgers, this vessel is specifically adapted for the Indian market, featuring heavy-duty dragheads for clay-type soils and the robust IHC conical bottom valves,\u201d said Jacco Damman, Chief Design Officer Beagle class dredgers at Royal IHC.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dci1-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101837\"  \/>photo courtesy of Jacco Damman LinkedIn<\/p>\n<p>According to DCI, the construction of this high-capacity dredger is set to enhance India\u2019s dredging capabilities, supporting the growth of coastal and inland shipping market.<\/p>\n<p>Once commissioned, this new 127m long TSHD will be the most sophisticated and technologically advanced dredger ever constructed in India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction of the new IHC Beagle 12.000m3 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) DCI Dredge Godavari at Cochin Shipyard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-423472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}