The Niko Nikoladze a hopper dredge owned by the Georgian company Port of Poti, was supplied as new building project in 2001, at Damen Shipyards Hoogezand The Netherlands. Hycos produced the hydraulic installation and the dredging control system.
The hydraulic installation drives among other items;

• Trailing suction pipe handling installation
• Wave compensator
• Dredge valve system
• Overflow valves
• Bottom doors
• Upper doors
• Hauling Winches
• Anchor Winches
• Dredge-pump
• Jet-water system valves

The hydraulic installati on consist a central power-pack with two adjustable axial piston pumps each driven by a 22 Kw electric motor.
The power-pack is capable to provide the whole system with a continuous pressure of 250 Bar.
During design works of their power-packs, extra attention is paid by Hycos to the filtration system. As a result the highest cleaning rates according ISO are achieved.
The advanced dredge operating panel, is based on Windows 2000 PC operating system and consist of a conventional operating panel and a 15”TFT Touch screen.
A well organised menu offers several additional operating and control features at the operators convenience.
The applied Master / Slave system reduced the use of electrical conventional wiring and cables on board significantly. Signals from trailing suction pipe position, sand-pump, valve positions and hydraulic valves are transferred as data between their positions and the PC / PLC control-panel