Extended Operational and Trade Vocabulary
Dredging Industry and Reclamation Contractors glossary (page 3)
Terms of the dredging and land-reclamation trade: cutter suction and trailing dredger methods, agitation and aggregate dredging, abrasion wear on cutter teeth and impellers, the major contractors such as Boskalis and Van Oord, port-authority dredging policy bodies, and the regulatory regimes governing marine sand and gravel extraction and terminal pre-dredging works.
592 defined terms.
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T
- Toa Corporation
- Tokyo-based marine construction firm with TSHD and reclamation portfolio across Japan and Southeast Asia.
- Tomakomai
- Japanese port dredged by Penta-Ocean and Toa.
- Toochi
- Inland Indian river dredging by DCI.
- Top dressing
- Final placement of clean material over reclamation surface.
- Topsoil placement
- Application of fertile cap over reclaimed land for revegetation.
- TPV
- Tipping vessel, alternative term for hopper barge.
- Tracker
- Dredging-software brand for CSD position monitoring.
- Trailing pipe
- TSHD outboard pipe with draghead at lower end.
- Trailing speed
- TSHD ground speed during dredging, typically 1-3 knots.
- Trans-Tasman
- Australian-NZ dredging market.
- Transhipment
- Transfer of cargo between vessels.
- Trihedral pick
- Cutter tooth geometry for hard rock.
- TSHD
- Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger, examples include Jan De Nul Cristobal Colon, Boskalis Helios.
- Tu Sun Hao
- CCCC TSHD.
- Tuas Megaport
- Singapore container port reclamation Phase 1 1,337 ha.
- Turbidity monitoring
- Real-time monitoring of plume during dredging, required by most modern permits.
- Turkish Straits
- Maritime corridor whose ports rely on dredging maintenance.
- Twin engine TSHD
- Standard configuration since 1990s, redundant for safety.
U
- Ulrich
- USACE Galveston District dredging supervisor archetype.
- Umbrella tender
- Multi-project framework agreement used by USACE and Rijkswaterstaat.
- Underwater Pile-cutting
- Adjacent service often combined with dredging in decommissioning.
- Unfinished Business
- Boskalis project reference for cancelled scope.
- Upper Bay
- New York Harbor area dredged for 50 ft programme.
- USACE
- United States Army Corps of Engineers, responsible for federal navigation channels and locks.
- USACE Engineer Manual EM 1110-2-1100
- Coastal Engineering Manual, the bible for shoreline protection works.
- USACE Engineer Manual EM 1110-2-5025
- Dredging and Dredged Material Management manual.
- USACE Engineer Manual EM 1110-2-5026
- Beneficial Uses of Dredged Material manual.
V
- Valencia
- Spanish city that hosted the America's Cup in 2007 and the Deed of Gift Match in 2010.
- Van Oord
- Dutch marine contractor active in offshore wind cable lay, foundation installation, and rock placement, operating Aeolus, Svanen, Nexus, and Boreas.
- Van Oord Offshore Wind
- Subsidiary delivering balance-of-plant for European wind farms.
- Vargon
- Boskalis TSHD.
- Vasco da Gama
- Portuguese navigator who reached India by sea in 1498.
- Vegetated reclamation
- Reclamation site planted with halophytes or grasses for stabilization.
- Velocity meter
- Pipeline flow meter, key for CSD production calculation.
- Vergulde Draeck
- Dutch dredger.
- Vidar
- Subsea7 wind turbine installation vessel under construction by Vard for delivery to Subsea7's offshore wind business.
- Visakhapatnam
- Indian east coast bunker call attended by IOCL and HPCL.
- Vlaanderen XIX
- DEME backhoe dredger.
- Volgograd Lock
- Russian inland waterway dredging.
- Volker Stevin
- Dutch construction firm associated with reclamation historically.
- Voltri
- Genoa container terminal dredging.
- Vox Alexia
- Van Oord TSHD of 17,600 m3 hopper.
- Vox Amalia
- Van Oord TSHD of 18,000 m3.
- Vox Apolonia
- Van Oord LNG dual-fuel TSHD of 18,000 m3, delivered 2021.
- Vox Ariane
- Van Oord TSHD.
- Vox Maxima
- Van Oord TSHD of 31,200 m3 hopper.
- Vox Vesuvius
- Van Oord TSHD.
W
- Walvis Bay
- Namibian bunker port at Anchorage A supplied by NAMCOR and Vivo Energy.
- Water injection dredging
- Method using high-volume low-pressure water jets to fluidize sediment for density-current transport, common in European harbors.
- Waterway dredger
- Inland CSD configuration for narrow channels.
- Weeks Marine
- Cranford NJ-based US dredging contractor, third major after GLDD and Manson.
- Wenchang
- CCCC TSHD.
- Westerschelde
- Belgian-Dutch estuary dredged for Antwerp.
- Westminster Dredging
- UK subsidiary of Boskalis.
- Wet rock cutter
- Heavy-duty cutter head for limestone and weathered granite.
- WID
- Working In Dredging, IADC training and accreditation scheme based at Antwerp Maritime Academy.
- Wilhelmshaven
- German JadeWeserPort deepening completed 2012 by Hochtief and Bilfinger.
- Willem Schouten
- Boskalis TSHD.
- Willemstad
- Curacao port dredging.
- Wind Farm
- Offshore wind farm adjacent dredging market for foundation scour and cable trenching.
- Wirth
- Cutter teeth supplier brand.
- Wonsan
- North Korean port reference.
- World Islands
- Nakheel reclamation 2003-2008 of 300 artificial islands totalling 9.34 km2 off Dubai, executed by Van Oord and partners.
- WorldStar
- NMDC TSHD.
- Wrap-up survey
- Final post-dredging bathymetric survey for contract closeout.
X
- Xiamen
- Chinese port maintenance by CCCC fleet.
- Xiao Yang
- CCCC small hopper.
- Xin Hai Hu
- CCCC TSHD.
- Xstrata
- Australian mining client for dredging at Townsville.
Y
- Yang Tze 6
- CCCC inland hopper.
- Yangshan
- Shanghai deep-water port reclamation by CCCC.
- Yangtze River
- Continuous CCCC maintenance dredging for inland navigation.
- Yantai
- Chinese port dredging by CCCC.
- Yantian
- Shenzhen container port deepening.
- Yanyuan
- Inland CCCC dredger.
- Yawata
- Penta-Ocean TSHD.
- Yellow River
- Inland CCCC dredging.
- Yellow Sea
- Marginal sea between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula.
- Yokohama
- Sumitomo Electric submarine cable plant site since 1936, producing modern fiber cable for NEC system orders.
- Yong Sheng
- CCCC TSHD.
- York River
- USACE dredging area.
Z
- Zafarana
- Egyptian port dredging.
- Zandeman
- Dutch term for dredge operator.
- Zeebrugge
- Belgian port with major ro-ro, container, and LNG terminals.
- Zelda
- Boskalis TSHD.
- Zeven Provincien
- Boskalis TSHD of 11,000 m3.
- Zhanjiang
- Chinese port deepening by CCCC.
- Zheng He
- Ming admiral who led seven treasure voyages 1405 to 1433.
- Zhoushan
- Chinese port and shipbuilding cluster in Zhejiang province, host to repair and newbuild yards.
- Zuiderzee
- Dutch inland sea, historically a key sheltered approach for shipping from the North Sea to Amsterdam.
- Zuidschermer
- Dutch inland dredging project.
- Zwijndrecht
- Belgian municipality, DEME global headquarters.