{"id":509951,"date":"2026-03-07T21:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/509951\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T21:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:23:08","slug":"breaking-news-dredger-xin-hai-jing-hits-the-water-chinas-first-distributed-pump-tshd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/509951\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Dredger Xin Hai Jing hits the water &#8211; China&#8217;s first distributed pump TSHD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China launched a 25,000-cubic-meter-class trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) yesterday \u2013 the first in the country to adopt a distributed pump system, CGTN reports. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cgtn.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>photo courtesy of CGTN<\/p>\n<p>Designed by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation\u2019s 708 Research Institute, the TSHD Xin Hai Jing can dredge to depths of up to 120 meters and has a hopper capacity of approximately 27,580 cubic meters.<\/p>\n<p>This dredger will work without tugboats, featuring a proprietary smart monitoring platform.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2026-03-07\/China-launches-its-first-distributed-pump-TSHD-1LjreY3jkQ0\/share_amp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CGTN<\/a>, the vessel will be used for the dredging operations in ports and harbors, sand extraction and some other coastal engineering projects.<\/p>\n<p>Delivery is scheduled for the second half of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China launched a 25,000-cubic-meter-class trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) yesterday \u2013 the first in the country to adopt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,144,451,231410,231411,3,452,453,214669],"class_list":["post-509951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-china","tag-headlines","tag-hopper-dredger","tag-new-dredger","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tshd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509951","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=509951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}