Adaptive dredging system reduces costs and environmental impact for ports
Our predictive dredging solution helps port authorities minimize over-dredging, cut costs, and protect the environment.
Our predictive dredging solution helps port authorities minimize over-dredging, cut costs, and protect the environment.
Port authorities spend billions annually maintaining approach channels and berths through dredging.
Traditional methods rely on conservative planning to ensure safe depths, but this often results in costly over-dredging, unnecessary environmental disruption, and inefficient use of dredger availability.
A smarter, more accurate system was needed to optimize dredging schedules and reduce uncertainty.
We developed a smart Adaptive Dredging System using the BMT Deep platform.
The system integrates real-time monitoring data with a combination of hydraulic/physics-based models and machine learning to analyse sedimentation trends.
By identifying when and where sediment builds up most rapidly, it enables “just-in-time” dredging.
This predictive capability ensures channels remain navigable while significantly reducing unnecessary dredging activity.
With the Adaptive Dredging System, port authorities gain a data-driven approach to channel maintenance.
The solution reduces over-dredging, lowering operating costs and environmental impact while maintaining safe, reliable water depths for vessel operations.
Improved scheduling of dredger vessels enhances efficiency, while predictive insights allow for better long-term planning.
Ultimately, the system delivers safer, more sustainable, and more cost-effective dredging operations.
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