The TSHD is a common vessel that does offshore dredging work for a certain purpose including artificial islands, increasing the depth of shallow canals and other offshore activities. The vessel is propelled by a diesel engine through a Controllable Pitch Propeller.

Professional Shipyard DGS has experience in building special-purpose vessels including trailing suction hopper dredgers with a hopper capacity of up to  8,000 m³. Such vessels require engineering expertise since the equipment onboard does mainly heavy-duty work. This includes dredging pumps, and suction rainbowing, in addition to the control system for dredging operation.

The vessel consists of 12 bottom doors for material dumping where all doors can be remotely controlled and displayed on the wheelhouse. It also includes a suction system, and jet pumps (water flow: 3,000m³/hr), onboard dredging pumps 10,000m³/hr). The dredging system is run by the dredging engine usually located at the fore of the vessel since the main engine role is to drive the ship forward while the dredging engine’s role is to supply the dredging pumps and dredging system in general with adequate power.