{"id":11595,"date":"2021-05-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2021\/05\/24\/green-thames-dredger\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:49:55","slug":"green-thames-dredger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe-greenport\/green-thames-dredger\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Thames dredger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Built for Van Oord by Kooiman Marine Group, <em>Maas<\/em> visited Forth Ports\u2019 Port of Tilbury (POTL) on 27 April. The vessel reduces CO2 emissions by capturing residual heat in batteries to propel diesel-electric engines.<\/p>\n<p>Port of London Authority (PLA) head of environment, Tanya Ferry, said: \u201cIt\u2019s great to see emissions-reducing ships like <em>Maas <\/em>make their first calls on the river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Efficient operations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vessel, one of a pair, also features heave compensation and dynamic positioning technology. This enhances its efficiency, by allowing operations to be pre-programmed in greater detail in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Other features include the ability to instantly switch between water injection modes from the bridge. The dredger is also equipped with a multi-beam echosounder, enabling online updates of the dredged seabed.<\/p>\n<p>The PLA\u2019s hydrographic team, who survey and chart the area for POTL, was closely involved in Maas\u2019 debut operation on the Thames.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Evans, POTL marine asset manager, declared the visit a success, recording a \u201csignificant improvement\u201d in the navigability of the dock entrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new hybrid water-injection dredger that uses a hybrid energy management system to reduce emissions has launched a programme of work on the River Thames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11597,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595\/revisions\/11597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11595"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}