Sucking up silt in France?s waterways

Toward the tail end of last year, Izar?s shipyard in Gijon, northern Spain, delivered a second dredger to the French national dredging company Dragages-Ports in Rouen. Named Samuel de Champlain, the 8,500m3 trailing suction hopper dredger is designed for harbour and channel entrance maintenance work in waterways controlled by the ...

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