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Dredging and Port Construction - Magazine - World News 04 Mar 2010

Dredging A Health Threat?

Admiral For Jan De Nul


Named after the most famous of China’s admirals, Jan De Nul’s cutter suction dredger Zheng He was launched at Uljanik Brodogradiliste Shipyard in Pula, Croatia, on 30 January – the same day keel-laying of sister vessel Fernão de Magalhães was also celebrated

Zheng He’s the second of four large self-propelled cutters with a total installed diesel power of 23,520kW to be built by the Pula yard. The first was Ibn Battuta, launched in August 2009, and the other two are th ...