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Don King, on left at table, and Jagadish Boloor sign an agreement appointing Moloor the exclusive representative for India for Dredge & Marine Corporation of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. Boloor is managing director of Yojaka (India) Pvt. Ltd. of Mangalore. The signing took place at the USA-India Business Summit 2010 on May 10 and 11 in Atlanta. In the group behind them are Her Excellency Meera Shankar, Indian ambassador to the United States, and Sanjiv Arora, consul general of India.

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At the Center for Dredging Studies at Texas A&M University, students recently cleared out a test tank using a small Cable Arm Clamshell bucket. During the two-day operation, the bucket removed 105,000 pounds, or 52.5 tons of mud. Here some of the students watch the bucket emptying into a container. They are, from left, a contract laborer, Rusty Permenter, John Reed, Ed O’Banion, and Po Yeh (senior research associate).

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Ellicott recently delivered this Model 4170 "Super Dragon" to a client in the United Arab Emirates. This is the fourth dredge Ellicott has delivered to this company. The dredges are being operated by National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC), one of the largest dredging contractors in the Middle East, on various projects in Abu Dhabi, developing coastal areas for resort and private real estate development projects. The 4170 is a 24-inch, 4,000 hp cutter suction dredge, with 750 hp cutter drive. It can dig to 58 feet deep. Photo by Paul Quinn.

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Jan de Nul’s newest self-propelled cutter suction dredge Fernão de Magalhães slides down the ways at the Uljanik Brodogradiliste shipyard in Pula, Croatia on June 24. The dredge has a total installed power of 24,520 kW, suction and discharge of 900 mm (35.43 inches), dredging depth of 35 meters (114.84 feet). The Fernão de Magalhães is the sister vessel of the Zheng He, launched earlier this year, and the Ibn Battuta, which was delivered in May at the shipyard in Pula. That same day the keel of the Niccolò Machiavelli, the fourth dredge in the series, was laid.

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