At Damen partner yard 189 Shipyard in Vietnam, the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) 1000 Kapuka, built for Port Otago and Napier Port, has been successfully launched. <\/p>\n
“Scheduled for delivery later this year, the almost 60-metre-long vessel is based on a proven Damen design and has been customized to meet the operational requirements of both ports. Combining the latest monitoring equipment with outstanding maneuverability thanks to azimuth thrusters and a bow thruster, the TSHD 1000 is particularly suited to maintaining safe and accessible harbor approaches and waterways,” Damen said.<\/p>\n
The new dredger will be jointly operated by Napier Port on New Zealand’s North Island and Port Otago on the South Island. Through a joint venture, the two port authorities have secured long-term access to dedicated dredging capacity for their respective harbor maintenance programs. <\/p>\n
Also, the arrangement enables both ports to plan dredging campaigns independently of third-party contractors while ensuring the continuous availability of a modern dredging asset in the region.<\/p>\n
Following the successful launch, the vessel has entered its final outfitting, testing, and commissioning phase alongside the quay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Damen partner yard 189 Shipyard in Vietnam, the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) 1000 Kapuka, built for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-860033","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\/860033","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=860033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}