Vox Amalia goes to work at Den Helder

Seawork 11th - 13th June 2024	Speed@Seawork 10th June 2024	Commercial Marine Network Conferences

The 25th edition of Europe’s largest commercial marine and workboat exhibition, provides businesses the opportunity to showcase their services, equipment, vessels and supplies to an international audience.	Speed@Seawork on Monday 10 June in Cowes offers a sector specific event that showcases fast vessels operating at high speed for security interventions and Search & Rescue.	The Commercial Marine Network, in partnership with Seawork and Maritime Journal, introduce Series 3 of ‘Get set for Workboat 2050’. An online conference series of expert panels navigating the waters of decarbonisation compliance and looking at practical applications across the workboat industry.
Visit the Seawork Website	Speed@Seawork on the Seawork Website	View the Conferences on Maritime Journal

Netherlands based dredging and marine construction contractor Van Oord''s new trailing suction hopper dredger ''Vox Amalia'' successfully started its first project last month in its home market.

Vox Amalia is reinforcing the coastline by placing more than 3.5 million m3 of sand in a deep trench just off the Dutch coast at Den Helder

The vessel is reinforcing the coastline by placing more than 3.5 million m3 of sand in a deep trench just off the Dutch coast at Den Helder. The contract was awarded by the Rijkswaterstaat, the operational arm of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.

Vox Amalia was built at the LaNaval shipyard in Bilbao, Spain and is the first of two new midsize trailing suction hopper dredgers for Van Oord, with its twin Vox Alexia to follow. Measuring 158m LOA and with a hopper capacity of 18,000m3, the vessels are each equipped with two suction pipes with submerged, electrically driven dredge pumps and six bottom doors. They are suitable for land reclamation works, building or expanding port infrastructure and coastal reinforcement works such as those at Den Helder.

Vox Amalia was christened by Her Majesty Queen Maxima at the end of 2018 during celebrations of Van Oord's 150th anniversary. Systems installation took place between April and October last year ahead of recently completed final trials.

The newbuilds are part of Van Oord's new generation of trailing suction hopper dredgers with a focus on energy efficiency for the smallest possible carbon footprint. An energy efficiency campaign started by the company in 2010 aims to achieve an energy efficiency improvement of 7% this year by equipping vessels with monitoring systems, additional sensors and several kinds of overviews such s those related to electricity use and power versus speed curves.

By Larz Bourne