Italdraghe SGT 350 to be delivered to Algeria

This month will see the delivery of a new all-Italian built dredger to Algeria. Italdraghe’s latest SGT 350 dredger is to be delivered in ready-to-assemble road transportable sections to Gènèrale Entreprise Maritime & Hydraulique in Oran, on Algeria’s north-west Mediterranean coast.

• This dredger will be used near Mostaganem, which is 350km west of Algiers, removing sand and gravel to create a landfall trench for over 1,800m of intake and output pipe destined to transport 200,000m3 of seawater per day to a desalinisation plant where, by the process of reverse osmosis, it will be converted into drinking water to be supplied across the whole of the country.  
• This purpose-built 30m long cutter suction dredger supplied complete with spuds and discharge pipeline, has been designed to dredge down to a depth of 12m.  
• At the heart of the dredger is an Italdraghe SGT 350 N horizontal axis dredging pump able to handle abrasive solids of up to 150mm.
• With a suction diameter of 450mm and a delivery diameter of 350mm, this hard-wearing pump features abrasive-resistant casings and jackets manufactured from exceptionally tough cast iron with a hardness of 550-650 Brinnel.
• Dredger performance is optimized thanks to the installation of two engines: a Cummins KTA 38-M0 engine, with continuous power of 800hp at 1,800rpm, and an Iveco N67 280 auxiliary engine, providing heavy duty power of 230hp at 2,800rpm.
• Keeping operator comfort in mind, the dredger was designed with a spacious fully-insulated and air-conditioned cabin affording important all-round visibility. The on-board instrumentation includes joystick commands and the very latest DGPS positioning system. 
• This made-to-measure dredger is one of a long line of cutter suction dredgers that Italdraghe has delivered over the decades to the increasingly exigent African market. A number of larger cutter suction dredgers destined for Nigeria and Angola are already on order and are due for delivery in summer 2009.