Jan De Nul has added a water injection to its large fleet of equipment, bringing its total of these smaller dredging vessels to five.
The new vessel, Cosette, was built at the Neptune Marine shipyard near Dordrecht, in the Netherlands.
Four-year-old Cosette Goethals christens her namesake in the presence of her mum, dad and two sisters.
She is a so-called Ultra Low Emission vessel (ULEv) and is equipped with a dual exhaust gas filtration system that Jan De Nul says removes up to 99% of polluting nanoparticles using a diesel particulate filter alongside a selective catalytic reduction system that removes NOx emissions.
“With Cosette we conclude an investment program of two new water injection dredgers that are even more compact than our existing fleet of water injection dredgers,” said Jan Van de Velde, Head of the Newbuilding Department at Jan De Nul Group. “Thanks to their compact character combined with an exceptional depth range, Cosette and Pancho are perfectly suited for maintenance dredging works in harbours and rivers.”
Cosette has been named after the four-year-old granddaughter of Julie and J P J de Nul, and the child christened her namesake on October 12.
Water injection dredgers are used in ports and rivers, where the area to manoeuvre in is too tight for larger vessels. They inject water into the subsoil, which loosens the material for removal.
