Mobile Pulley Works Wins Contract For Dredging Equipment

Mobile Pulley Works (MPW) of Mobile, Alabama, has been awarded a new contract by BEAN Coastal LLC, a subsidiary of Callan Marine Ltd. from Galveston, Texas.

The contract includes the design, construction, delivery and installation of the complete dredging equipment package for a new cutter suction dredger (CSD). This new CSD, named the General MacArthur, will have a total installed power of 24,000 hp and the diameter of its discharge pipe will be 31.5 inches.

Robert Jonk, vice president of sales at MPW, said that MPW’s delivery includes all major dredging components, such as the cutter ladder, A-frame, suction and discharge pipeline, gate valves, submerge dredge pump, two onboard dredge pumps, 5 and 6 blade cutters, christmas tree, anchorboom system and spud carrier installation.

The latest innovations will be incorporated in the design of these components, which will be cast, machined and constructed at one of the facilities of MPW in Mobile. In addition to the equipment for the CSD itself, MPW will also deliver the ball joints and pontoons for the floating discharge pipeline.

SPI/Mobile Pulley Works supplies dredges, complete dredging installations for both CSD and trailing suction hopper dredges, large fabrications, castings, and machined parts for the dredging industry.