About Dredgers

DSB Offshore is active in the sale, purchase and charter of dredgers within the marine market.

 

Dredging has been in existence for centuries, starting when rowing boats “dredged” the sea for food in shallow estuaries. Since that time the requirements for vessels that “dredge” has evolved into the present day dredging systems of removing large quantities of materials from the sea bed. 

 

Dredging is now a large industry encompassing vessels able to perform multiple tasks from fishing, to flattening, scouring harbours, to deepening harbour channels to winning spoil for construction projects. 

 

Present day dredgers are large versatile ships with considerable power for high capacity removal of spoils from varied areas to be relocated as building materials or just moved from location to location.

 

The major dredger types are as follows: -