Construction of Asia's largest dredging vessel begins in Jiangsu

The construction of the dredging vessel Tian Kun Hao, the largest of its kind in Asia, began in Lianyungang, east China’s Jiangsu Province on Friday.

The 140-meter-long China-built vessel, with a designed capacity to dredge 6,000 cubic meters per hour, can dig as deep as 35 meters underwater.

The project will overcome difficulties like remote transport and tight schedule, and build a 3,135-meter-long 100,000-ton channel, an extension project of Lianyungang Port. The project will dredge 6,766,000 cubic meters of sand and silt in total.