Newbuild Italdraghe shipped to Guyana
Italy’s Italdraghe has delivered, as part of a complete dredging equipment package, a newly-built cutter suction dredger and booster station to Guyana, South America.
The SGT 180 B cutter suction dredger and SGT 180 booster have been custom-designed and built by Italdraghe in its main shipyard to specific client requirements for the purpose of extracting riverbed gold.
The 28m long dismountable dredger, constructed in accordance with Italian Naval Registry (RINA) regulations, has a suction diameter of 200mm and a discharge diameter of 180mm.
With total installed power of 380 HP, provided by an Iveco C90 engine, the dredger can work at a maximum depth of 15m, a considerable depth for a dredger of this size.
The RPV200 Italdraghe on board dredging pump unit is extremely resistant to wear being manufactured from Cr-hard cast iron with a hardness of 600 Brinell and with a special wear-resistant manganese four-blade steel impeller measuring 565mm in diameter.
The dredger, which will work continuously in conjunction with an on land selection plant, is being shipped together with a comprehensive dredger/booster spare parts package.
Both the dredger and booster station have been designed to fit into containers for ease of sea and overland transport.
This latest set of equipment is supplied to complement a range of other Italdraghe gold dredging and mining equipment already working onsite in Guyana.
