# Royal IHC awarded contract to build world's largest cutter suction dredger for DEME

Royal IHC was awarded a contract to design and build the Spartacus, a 164m-long, 44,180kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger for DEME. The vessel will be the world's first LNG-powered CSD and is scheduled for delivery in summer 2019.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2017-03-01
- Where: Netherlands
- Status: announced
- Products: cutter suction dredger
- Sectors: [Mining Equipment](https://endata.com/sectors/mining-equipment.md)

## Companies

- [DEME](https://endata.com/companies/1289.md) (customer)
- [Royal IHC](https://endata.com/companies/2818.md) (supplier)

## Sources

- [marinelink.com](https://www.marinelink.com/news/largest-suction-dredger422668), 2017-03-01: "We can state that this CSD [Spartacus] is the largest and most complex that IHC has ever built."

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