New mighty dredger set sail for trial

Tiankun is capable of dredging 6,000 cubic meters of sand or clay per hour

China started sea trials on Friday of Asia's largest and most advanced cutter-suction dredger, which is expected to become a mighty "island-maker".

The Tiankun set sail from a shipyard at Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry's Qidong Marine Engineering in Jiangsu province's Qidong, where it was built and berthed, for a three-day sea trial off Zhoushan Archipelago, according to Zhang Xiaofeng, chief designer of the ship at the Marine Design and Research Institute in Shanghai, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corp.