{"id":30613,"date":"2022-06-23T04:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/backhoe-dredge-arrives-in-port-hedland\/30613\/"},"modified":"2022-06-23T04:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T01:22:17","slug":"backhoe-dredge-arrives-in-port-hedland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/backhoe-dredge-arrives-in-port-hedland\/30613\/","title":{"rendered":"Backhoe Dredge Arrives in Port Hedland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>A Hall Contracting backhoe dredge arrived in Port Hedland last week.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its low clearance hull design, the dredge was transported from the Middle East on board a semi-submersible heavy load carrier.<\/p>\n<p>After arriving at anchorage, the heavy load carrier was submersed, allowing the dredge to float off.<\/p>\n<p>Now anchored at the Port of Port Hedland, prep work is underway on the dredge before dredging works commence at the Spoilbank Marina in early July.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few months, the backhoe dredge, accompanied by two split hopper barges, will start at the channel\u2019s northern end and work toward the marina.<\/p>\n<p>On completion, the 900-meter-long channel will be 2.5 meters deep at the lowest tide, enough to accommodate most recreational vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 190,000 cubic meters of marine sediments will be removed from the seabed and deposited at an existing offshore spoil ground, 12 kilometers away.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hall Contracting backhoe dredge arrived in Port Hedland last week. Due to its low clearance hull design, the dredge was transported from the Middle East on board a semi-submersible heavy load carrier. After arriving at anchorage, the heavy load carrier was submersed, allowing the dredge to float off. Now anchored at the Port of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/30614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}