Container vessel collides with world's largest hopper dredger

Shipping & Shipbuilding News - 9 March 2007 - The Brightest Maritime Daily

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Container vessel collides with world's largest hopper dredger

Royal Boskalis Westminster nv announced that yesterday at around 2.00 PM local time a container vessel ran into its trailer suction hopper dredger W.D. FAIRWAY during dredging operations in Tianjin, China. There were no personal injuries. The vessel is currently stable and the crew is on board.

The cause of the collision and the level of damage are not yet known and are being investigated.

The WD FAIRWAY is the world's largest hopper dredger. She was built in 1997 by Verolme Shipyard Heusden and in 2003 was modified at Sembawang Shipyard, Singapore

She is 232 metres long and has a gross tonnage of 33423 tons