Largest backhoe dredger in the world

High-Solids Dredging Equipment. Pass Solids Up to 9-Inches. The ceremony was attended by more than a thousand guests and Van Oord employees. It has a total installed power of 0HP, comparable to fifty large automobiles.

The new backhoe dredger Magnor , currently being built for Boskalis by Ravestein, will be the largest and most efficient backhoe dredger in the world.

Two large deck cranes are fitted for work on- and changing of the equipment (boom, stick and bucket) of the excavator. But even these powerful nautical marvels are dwarfed by the Nordic Giant, the dredging company’s biggest backhoe dredger. Time after time the Liebherr P9hydraulic excavator (right) scoops up nearly tonnes. This ferocious machine easily fills a split barge in just three-quarters of an hour. Boskalis now has the largest and most efficient backhoe dredger in the world: the new , awe-inspiring Magnor.

The specific design and the innovations developed by Boskalis for the excavator and the lifting section make the Magnor fast, powerful, economical, clean and quiet. IHC Merwede has successfully launched the largest backhoe dredger in the world.

The name of the vessel will be revealed at the end of the year during a special ceremony. The launch took place at the shipyard of its cooperation partner, NMC , in Nieuw-Lekkerland , the Netherlands. Boskalis has around of these vessels operating on projects all over the worl including the Magnor , the largest backhoe in the world. It can dredge to a depth of meters, and has a bucket with a volume of cubic meters.

The six largest backhoe dredgers in the world are currently the Vitruvius , the Mimar Sinan , Postnik Yakovlev ( Jan De Nul ), the Samson ( DEME ), the Simson and the Goliath ( Van Oord ). They featured barge -mounted excavators. Best In Class Excavator Attachment Dredge. Do Big Jobs, Small Crew, Profits Up. Due to the anchoring by spud poles and the fixed boom and stick the dredging depth is limited (maximum m).

Some of these type of dredgers are self propelled. Most backhoe dredger models are not this large and cannot dig to those depths, but they are still capable of reaching the bottom of deep waterways quickly and easily. Unusually large bucket-wheel excavators, over 2meters long and up to 1meters in height, are used in German strip-mining operations and are the largest earth-movers in the world.

The three largest backhoe dredgers in the world are Vitruvius and Mimar Sinan (Jan De Nul) and Goliath (Van Oord). Small backhoe dredgers can be track-mounted and work from the bank of ditches. A backhoe dredger is equipped with a half-open shell.

The shell is filled moving towards the machine.

It consists of a hydraulic excavator mounted on a pontoon. It can be deployed on a wide variety of dredging projects. In Van Oord’s fleet, backhoes Simson and Goliath are the largest hydraulic dredging cranes. They are used to dredge ports and provide services to the offshore industry worldwide.

The Bucyrus RH40 owned by Caterpillar, is the world’s biggest hydraulic excavator.