Featured News and Product Updates

In 2018 the Millennium Challenge Account of Malawi (MCA-M) awarded Ellicott Dredges a tendered contract to supply an Ellicott Series 1270 Dragon® dredge for the Kapichira hydropower plant in Malawi. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S.-based government agency, has been working directly with government officials from Malawi over the last several years to establish a strong foundation on which the country’s power system can successfully sustain itself over time. A majority of Malawi’s residents rely on hydropower...Continue Reading

June 10, 2019 The Altamira port complex in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, is one of the four largest ports in Mexico. Altamira is part of a large industrial complex dedicated logistics of items such as LNG, petrochemicals, industrial components, and commodities. At the moment, two Ellicott dredges are operating or about to begin a port dredging project in Altamira.  An Ellicott Series 670 Dragon® dredge is currently being used to perform routine maintenance on the navigation and...Continue Reading

May 29, 2019 POCATELLO, IDAHO – Ellicott DredgeTechnologies (EDT) is pleased to announce the repeat sale of a Mud Cat® auger style cutterhead dredge to the City of Pocatello’s Water Pollution Control Department (WPC). The city replaced their 32-year-old Mud Cat MC-815 with Mud Cat’s updated MC- 225D with 815 style cutterhead. Mud Cat was selected over multiple US bidders and was the only supplier with an ISO 9001:2015 certified factory. “We are extremely pleased with the new dredge. The operators love the new...Continue Reading

April 16, 2019 In 2017 Ellicott Dredges, a Baltimore, Maryland (USA) dredge manufacturer delivered a Series 460SL Swinging Dragon® dredge to a customer near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The heavy-duty dredge is currently being used to remove sediment from a local marina and navigational channel that connects directly to the Pacific Ocean. The customer selected the 460SL Swinging Dragon® dredge because of the small dredge’s ability to operate in and narrow and limited spaces. in areas such as boat...Continue Reading

April 4, 2019 KELANTAN, MALAYSIA – Ellicott Dredge Technologies (EDT) is pleased to announce the sale of an IMS Model 7012 HP JetMaster® dredge to Matrix Reservoir Sdn Bhd for maintaining Tok Bali Supply Base (TBSB) in Kelantan, Malaysia. The system will perform annual maintenance of TBSB which serves the oil and gas industry in offshore Peninsular Malaysia and the Gulf of Thailand. TBSB’s location at the mouth of the Semerak River means that it gets regular sedimentation, which requires continuous maintenance...Continue Reading