The towering spuds of a hired backhoe dredge will be visible at Eastland Port this week as maintenance dredging in front of wharf 7 and 8, and in the navigation channel, begins. The 32m high spuds, or anchors, are part of a GPK backhoe dredge hired from Heron Construction. The dredging will begin on Wednesday 6 December 2017 in… Read more »
![Impressive backhoe dredger to shift hard material](https://www.eastland.nz/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/12/GPK-dredge-fb-size/4065042349.jpg)