Dredging vessels to leave Melbourne for reconstruction and routine maintenance

Port of Melbourne Corporation announced at the Channel Deepening Project news conference on October 15, 2008 that the project’s two main dredging vessels are both scheduled to leave Port Phillip this week.


With work at the Entrance of the bay now technically complete, ‘Queen of the Netherlands’ is scheduled to leave Melbourne for Singapore on October 17 2008. There, the vessel’s mid–ship section will be lengthened by about 50 metres. The work is scheduled to be completed in March next year, following which the ‘Queen of the Netherlands’ is scheduled to return to Melbourne. The project’s other main dredger, ‘Cornelis Zanen’ (‘CoZa’), is scheduled to leave for Singapore on October 15 2008 for routine maintenance in dry dock. The vessel is scheduled to return in early December, resuming work in the northern part of the bay. ‘CoZa’ is then scheduled to recommence ongoing works in the south of the bay in early February 2009. Dredging and services protection works using smaller dredging vessels will continue in the Yarra River this week.
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