Nation launches mighty new 'island-maker'

[TaiShang]

Nation launches mighty new 'island-maker'
China Daily, November 4, 2017

Full displacement of the Tiankun: 17,000 metric tons Length: 140 meters Capability: Can dredge up to 6,000 cubic meters of sand or clay per hour from a depth of 35 meters [Xinhua]

Photo taken on Nov 3, 2017 shows the cutter-suction dredger Tiankun at a shipyard of Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co Ltd in Qidong, East China's Jiangsu province. The vessel, the largest of its kind in Asia, started water testing in Jiangsu Friday. [Xinhua]

The cutter-suction dredger Tiankun leaves the dock at a shipyard of Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co Ltd in Qidong, East China's Jiangsu province, Nov 3, 2017. The vessel, the largest of its kind in Asia, started water testing in Jiangsu Friday. [Xinhua]

http://china.org.cn/photos/2017-11/04/content_41845781_8.htm

 

[Kyle Sun]

I want to see volume production of this beast.

 

[Dungeness]

Nation launches mighty new 'island-maker'
China Daily, November 4, 2017

Full displacement of the Tiankun: 17,000 metric tons Length: 140 meters Capability: Can dredge up to 6,000 cubic meters of sand or clay per hour from a depth of 35 meters [Xinhua]

Photo taken on Nov 3, 2017 shows the cutter-suction dredger Tiankun at a shipyard of Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co Ltd in Qidong, East China's Jiangsu province. The vessel, the largest of its kind in Asia, started water testing in Jiangsu Friday. [Xinhua]

The cutter-suction dredger Tiankun leaves the dock at a shipyard of Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co Ltd in Qidong, East China's Jiangsu province, Nov 3, 2017. The vessel, the largest of its kind in Asia, started water testing in Jiangsu Friday. [Xinhua]

http://china.org.cn/photos/2017-11/04/content_41845781_8.htm

It is one thing for regular Joe and John to call it "Island Maker" , but it is quite another claimed by China Daily. Now China is a little too "transparent"!

 

[TaiShang]

It is one thing for regular Joe and John to call it "Island Maker" , but it is quite another claimed by China Daily. Now China is a little too "transparent"!

Somebody got to be fired at the China.org.

I would call it "peace maker" for publicity sake. But, perhaps, it is the New Normal .

 

[qwerrty]

china should build one island near california in international water and put few dozen ELINT drones there to test freedom of navigation.

 

[Daniel808]

Let's build another island in Southern sea (Nanhai sea 南海)

 

[American Pakistani]

China, please build islands for Pakistan in Indian ocean.

 

[Tang_BJ]

China, please build islands for Pakistan in Indian ocean.

This Tiankun ship is special designed for Huangyan island, but the plan was made 5 years ago, at that time, China has very bad relationship with Philippines. Too many things were changed after 5 years,now China have no excuse to build Huangyan island.

 

[TaiShang]

china should build one island near california in international water and put few dozen ELINT drones there to test freedom of navigation.

Just like how they back away from global free trade regime now when the system they built begun to benefit others more, when FON begins to benefit others, we will hear another whiny shill rhetoric of building walls. This time on the Pacific. And make Hawaii pay for it.

 

[TaiShang]

'Island-maker' dredger will top Asia rankings

China Daily, June 15, 2018

China has recently started building a new cutter-suction dredger that its designer called the biggest and best of its kind in Asia.

This type of dredger is known as an "island-maker" due to such ships' major role in land reclamation.

Construction of the new vessel, which has yet to be named, began in mid-May at Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Co in Guangzhou, a subsidiary of the industry giant China State Shipbuilding Corp. It is expected to take about a year, according to Zhang Xiaofeng, the ship's chief designer at the Marine Design and Research Institute in Shanghai, one of CSSC's research arms.

Zhang told China Daily in an exclusive interview that engineers and workers are building the ship's primary sections. It is scheduled to be moved into water in mid-2019.

He said the vessel will be 148 meters long, have a fullload displacement of 18,700 metric tons, and will be capable of breaking and dredging coral reef or hard rocks from 38 meters below the sea's surface.

After sand, clay, rock or crushed coral is drawn out of the waters, it can be conveyed as far as 15 kilometers away from the ship thanks to the world's most powerful and longest conveyance system. Suctioned material can be piled up to form new land.

The new ship's cutters will be stronger and more powerful than those mounted on its predecessors, enabling the vessel to deal with harder rock and more complex seabed conditions, the chief designer said.

China has been advancing so fast in the field of cutter-suction dredgers that every few months it produces anew entry at the top of the rankings of Asia's largest and most powerful "island-maker".

Before the new ship takes its place in the rankings, the crown is being held by Tiankun, which just finished its first sea trial and is set to be delivered to the user soon.

Before Tiankun, the Tianjing, a vessel codesigned by Chinese and German engineers and now deployed by China Communications Construction Co's Tianjin Dredging Co, had been Asia's No 1 dredger for more than seven years and had taken part in land reclamation operations in the South China Sea.

In addition to cutter-suction dredgers, other types of dredgers have recently been designed by the Marine Design and Research Institute such as trailing suction hopper dredgers.

Such dredgers are often used to maintain navigable waterways or to build new land, according to the institute, which is now building four trailing suction hopper dredgers.

The Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs published a notice in May 2017 that no individual or entity is allowed to export large dredgers unless it is expressly permitted by the government.

 

[Place Of Space]

China, please build islands for Pakistan in Indian ocean.

Please appoint the x,y coordinates, let's go!

 

[indianfighter1999]

china should build one island near california in international water and put few dozen ELINT drones there to test freedom of navigation.

even if some island is built in international waters this can not be taken as chinese territorial waters so if some sea route crosses these islans chinese dont have any legal rights to stop the ships even if ships goes with 100 meters of man made island

 

[Canuck786]

Congratulations to our brothers in China for achieving another milestone in their progress.

In other fake news, Modi is mulling a nuclear powered 175 meter cutter suction dredger with full TOT and has demanded for it to be made in India.