'Just like a giant vacuum cleaner'

摘要

To find out how the Port of Southampton undertakes its dredging operations, I went on board the dredger UKD Bluefin while she was undertaking the maintenance dredging in the Port. I joined the ship at Dock Head, and the dredger sailed the short distance to Ocean Dock, the area to be dredged. The dredging work is undertaken by UKD (United Kingdom Dredging), the dredging division of ABP which dredges most of their 22 ports and harbours. UKD Bluefin is the largest dredger in the fleet and is well suited to the dredging operations in Southampton because of the distance to the licensed disposal site, which lies in the Solent south of the Nab Tower.