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SHIP CHRISTENING OF THE SUCTION HOPPER DREDGER HEGEMANN V

On Wed­nes­day, June 14, 2023, we chris­tened our new suc­tion hop­per dred­ger with the name “HEGEMANN V”. The chris­tening took place in Bre­mer­ha­ven at 11:00 a.m. in beau­tiful suns­hine (so the chris­tened ves­sel did­n’t have to freeze) at Island­kai. Heike Ahrens-Kulen­kampff, Chair­wo­man of the non-pro­fit Det­lef Hege­mann Foun­da­tion and the non-pro­fit Ursula Hege­mann Foun­da­tion, acted as god­mo­ther of the HEGEMANN V at the ceremony. 

REVIEW | Order & Con­s­truc­tion
At the end of June 2020, a con­tract was signed with the Dutch shi­py­ard group Kooiman Marine Group for the con­s­truc­tion of a new suc­tion hop­per dred­ger with the working title “HEGEMANN V”. The ship was to have a length of 76 m, a hold volume of around 1900 m³ and be ope­ra­ted with die­sel-elec­tric sys­tems. This meant that the suc­tion hop­per dred­ger had to meet the hig­hest cur­rent emis­sion requi­re­ments. The HEGEMANN V is desi­gned to ope­rate world­wide 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with a crew of 8. 

REVIEW | Laun­ching, towage, deli­very
On Janu­ary 18, 2022, the HEGEMANN V was laun­ched at the shi­py­ard in Kla­dovo (Ser­bia), where the ship was put into the water. From there, it was towed along the Danube to the Roma­nian sea­port of Con­stanza. Howe­ver, the HEGEMANN V’s jour­ney did not end here. The plan­ned route included the Black Sea, the Bos­po­rus, Malta, Sar­di­nia, the Strait of Gibral­tar, the Eng­lish Chan­nel and Rot­ter­dam. The HEGEMANN V was towed along the entire route, which was a major chall­enge, par­ti­cu­larly due to the length of the route. Her final desti­na­tion (before deli­very) was finally at the Kooiman shi­py­ard in Zwijndrecht. 

The invest­ment of around EUR 20 mil­lion demons­tra­tes the long-term importance of the dred­ging busi­ness seg­ment for the HEGEMANN-REINERS GROUP.