Abstract:

The main purpose of dredging is to maintain the required depth of harbours and marine and inland waterways. Any investment work carried out within the area of port infrastructure should be planned in such a way as to minimise interference with the port operations and vessel traffic.
 The research aims to analyse work scenarios involving a proposed dredging fleet and using a Navi-Trainer 5000 navigational and manoeuvring simulator connected to the Transas Navi-Sailor 4000 navigation information system. The conduction of an analysis using an ECDIS simulator allows the operational parameters of the dredging project to be determined. These include driving time, the time taken to fill a TSHD dredger to full capacity, the scale of manoeuvrability of the dredger within the port area and the determination of the safe distance between dredging vessels and other ships. The proposed solution may be supplemented with additional computer-based programs providing a valuable tool in the research and monitoring of planned and current dredging projects.