New & used Cutter Suction Dredges for Sale
Savona Equipment is a worldwide supplier of marine equipment including cutter suction dredges. A Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) is equipped with a rotating cutter head cutting hard soil into fragments. The cut soil is then sucked in by dredge pumps. Cutter suction dredgers are mostly stationary suction dredgers that cut the soil according to a pre-set profile. In other words, the vessel does not sail during dredging activities. The material is then pumped ashore using pumps and a floating pipeline or loaded into a split hopper barge moored alongside, which in turn can then offload the dredge sediment at the set location. Larger cutter suction dredgers are self-propelled which means that they can sail autonomously.