
One final point: the announcement by the companies says that the new dredge manufacturing facility will not be ready until September of next year. This announcement marks the entrance of another player, this one from Italy.īut as one expert with knowledge has noted, a new big import duty on all imported dredges has totally changed the game: “It’s a race to build local now with 31% import tariff in place for foreseeable future.” DSC has already announced its own partnership with a Bangladesh company. The main suppliers have been Damen and Royal IHC of the Netherlands, and Ellicott and Dredging Supply (DSC) of the USA.


As the article below notes, the public sector has bought over 100 units, and the private sector even more, an astounding 150 dredgers. “It’s a race to build local now with 31% import tariff.”īangladesh has been the biggest market in the world for portable cutter suction dredges for the last few years.
