Tiankun Dredger: The largest self-propelled suction vessel in the Asia-Pacific region made in China
China has demonstrated strong comprehensive national strength and independently developed a variety of engineering equipment with excellent performance. Recently, China has unveiled another impressive achievement, the largest dredger in the Asia-Pacific region, the Tiankun. Known as an "island-building artifact", the dredger is said to be extremely advanced, excavating 6,000 cubic meters of soil per hour and successfully filling five islands in just six months. What is even more unattainable to Western countries is that China has blocked the export of technology from the Tiankun dredger, and even if it is willing to pay a high price to buy it, the United States and other countries cannot obtain this technology.
The scale of the Tiankun dredger is impressive, with a total length of 140 meters, a width of 27.8 meters, a maximum digging depth of 35 meters, and a total installed power of 25,843 kilowatts. Its winch is rated at 6,600 kilowatts and can dredge 6,000 cubic meters of mud per hour.
Dredgers are specially used in marine engineering construction, which can excavate sediment from the bottom of the sea for land reclamation and other projects. China has the longest coastline and the largest territorial sea area in the world, so the marine engineering construction market has huge potential. However, in order to limit China's development, Western countries have imposed a blockade on the export of dredger technology. Chinese companies have had to buy used or vintage dredgers from the West at high prices, creating huge obstacles to China's marine industry and overall national strength.
However, with the birth of the Tiankun dredger, China finally got out of this predicament. The Tiankun is China's self-developed and most advanced dredger in the Asia-Pacific region, with a capacity of 6,000 cubic meters of soil per hour, equivalent to the loading and unloading capacity of dozens of heavy-duty trucks. It is also equipped with high-power pumps and pipes that can pump sediment excavated from the sea hundreds of meters away, or spray directly on the construction site for land reclamation, etc. Its efficiency far exceeds that of older dredgers offered to China by the West.
In its first mission, the dredger Tianquan showed great strength. It reportedly traveled to the South China Sea for its first tests shortly after launching, helping China build five small islands in just six weeks, far more and in size than Western dredgers built in the same amount of time. After completing the South China Sea mission, the Tiankun dredger went to Tianjin and carried out the port expansion task, expanding the scale of the port area through land reclamation, dredging the channel, and increasing the depth of the channel and berth to accommodate the docking of larger tonnage cargo ships.
The powerful performance of the Tiankun dredger is also the envy of Western countries. It is said that after it was launched, it attracted a number of Western companies to negotiate purchases, but China's response was firm. To protect key core technologies, China has included the Tiankun dredger on a list of prohibited technologies for export, banning Western countries from buying its technology or finished products, even if it pays a high price. The Tiankun dredger uses a large number of China's own research and development and original technology, and does not use foreign technology and products, so Western countries cannot use traditional sanctions to force China to export.
China now has a strong infrastructure strength, and the birth of the Tiankun has further enhanced China's marine engineering capabilities and is expected to capture a large number of market shares in Western countries.