PHOTO: Hopper dredger City of Cardiff at Swansea Drydocks

A new visitor for Swansea Drydocks, in for bow thruster repairs, is the hopper dredger City of Cardiff, built in 1997.

Owned by Tarmac Marine Dredging Ltd., the dredger is sailing under the flag of United Kingdom.

Tarmac fleet of four vessels (the City of London, the City of Westminster, the City of Chichester and the City of Cardiff) is purpose built for aggregate dredging and as part of a network of wharves and processing plants Tarmac Marine supplies high quality natural sand and gravel aggregates into major UK construction projects. 

Their marine team is based in Chichester, West Sussex. It comprises specialists in marine and wharf operations, ship engineering and mineral resources.