Heavy Machinery
The UAE has long relied on its maritime gateways for trade, tourism, and energy. With ports like Jebel Ali, Fujairah, and Khalifa Port serving as global logistics hubs, marine and coastal development remains one of the nation’s top priorities. Contractors increasingly require heavy marine equipment built to withstand the toughest conditions. From dredging new canals and deepening harbors to building breakwaters and maintaining waterways, Al Marwan Machinery offers a full spectrum of marine machinery for sale and rent, including amphibious excavators with floating pontoons, long-boom excavators, and high-bed diggers, all engineered to meet the region’s ambitious infrastructure demands.
Award-winning amphibious and high-bed excavators engineered for marine and coastal projects with superior stability and performance.
Up to 32m custom-built long booms, high-bed frames, and amphibious undercarriages assembled in our specialized workshops for rapid deployment.
Highly skilled, HSE-certified operators specialized in marine equipment, ensuring precision, safety, and operational excellence.
Why It Matters
Dubai has become a global showcase for marine and waterfront projects. Iconic developments such as Dubai Marina, Palm Jumeirah, and Dubai Creek Harbour highlight the scale at which marine equipment Dubai is utilized. Also, major regional initiatives such as the Jeddah Waterfront redevelopment in Saudi Arabia and the Duqm Port expansion in Oman reflect the growing demand for advanced marine machinery across the GCC.
Contractors face complex challenges when working in coastal environments, including:
To overcome these challenges, the right mix of marine heavy equipment is essential. Al Marwan ensures contractors are equipped with machines specifically designed for these environments reinforced against corrosion, optimized for deep reach, and configured for both land and marine operations.
Comprehensive marine solutions
What sets Al Marwan apart is not only the breadth of its fleet but also its customized approach and decades of industry expertise to meet clients need marine equipment for sale or short-term rentals for dredging and piling, Al Marwan offers flexible, end-to-end solutions backed by:
Al Marwan stands today as a trusted leader in marine equipment supply across the UAE and GCC.
Al Marwan Marine Equipment
Marine projects are complex and demand machines that can adapt to multiple environments shallow water, reclaimed land, rocky seabeds, and offshore platforms. Al Marwan Machinery provides a diverse range of marine heavy equipment engineered to meet these challenges.
Amphibious excavators are the flagship of Al Marwan’s marine machinery fleet. Equipped with specially designed undercarriages that float on pontoons, these excavators are able to work directly in wetlands, marshes, lakes, and shallow coastal zones.
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For deep dredging, piling, and breakwater construction, long-boom excavators are essential. These machines extend their reach up to 32 meters, making them perfect for underwater excavation and slope protection.
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You’ll find leading brands for long‑boom excavator rental including Kobelco, Komatsu, and Caterpillar. Our rental fleet covers a wide range of sizes and boom lengths to suit complex projects across the GCC.
Reach: Up to 32 meters with custom boom.
Engine Power: 344-532 HP (depending on model).
Operating Weight: 22-125 tons.
Hydraulics: Reinforced hydraulic pumps with flow optimization for heavy attachments.
Attachments: Compatible with Clamshell buckets, grabs, dredging buckets, crusher and screener buckets.
Applications: Breakwaters, deep canal dredging, port expansion, underwater slope works.
In marine and coastal works, access to elevated digging levels is critical, especially when operating around quay walls, breakwaters, and port structures. Al Marwan supplies high-bed excavators engineered with elevated chassis to provide greater working height, better visibility, and improved stability in marine environments.
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Model available: Kobelco SK850LC High-Bed Excavator (22-meter Boom)
Operating Weight: 85 tons.
Boom Reach: 22 meters with custom elevated design.
Chassis: Elevated heavy-duty undercarriage for additional clearance.
Hydraulics: High-flow dual-pump hydraulic system for demanding marine tasks.
Visibility: Elevated cab design with panoramic operator view for quay and offshore works.
Stability: Wide undercarriage for enhanced stability in reclaimed or rough ground conditions.
Applications: Dredging from barges, quay wall maintenance, port construction, slope reinforcement.
Strong foundations are critical for marine infrastructure such as bridges, ports, and offshore platforms. As the official dealer for ABI piling rigs, Al Marwan supplies German-engineered machines designed for precision, reliability, and efficiency.
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Our ABI drilling equipment have been extensively deployed in UAE marine projects, ensuring stable foundations that meet international safety and durability standards.
Marine projects often require heavy lifting capabilities, whether for quay wall modules, precast girders, or offshore infrastructure. Al Marwan offers a fleet of large Kobelco crawler cranes known globally for Japanese precision, clean layouts, and fuel efficiency.
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Efficient handling of aggregates, dredged materials, and sand stockpiles is a cornerstone of marine operations. Al Marwan’s wheel loader fleet spans a wide range of global brands, including Komatsu, Volvo, JCB, and others.
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With fuel-efficient engines and operator-friendly cabins, these loaders deliver consistent productivity while minimizing downtime.
For marine embankments, reclamation shaping, and heavy earthmoving near coasts, large bulldozers are indispensable. Al Marwan supplies dozers from industry leaders Caterpillar and Komatsu, built for strength and durability.
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Beyond specialized marine heavy equipment, Al Marwan provides a comprehensive supporting fleet to ensure smooth execution of every marine and coastal development.
Case Studies
The Al Layyah Canal & Bridges project is one of Sharjah’s landmark marine and infrastructure works. Designed to connect Khalid Lagoon with the Arabian Gulf, it spans an 850-meter canal and includes two major bridges.
Al Marwan Construct was at the forefront of this project, deploying a highly specialized fleet of marine heavy equipment to handle excavation, piling, bridge construction, and marine works.
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This fleet integration demonstrated how marine machinery from Al Marwan supports multi-phase projects, ensuring precision and efficiency from excavation to bridge completion.
Explore more details about the Al Layyah Canal and Bridges project, including the heavy equipment deployed on site.
Ramhan Island’s ambitious masterplan includes artificial canals, marinas, bridges, and extensive shoreline protection, all within a sensitive mangrove ecosystem. Excavation channels required precise trimming (typically to -3.00 m ACD) with strict environmental controls.
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For more information on the Ramhan Island project, check our previous blog exploring our marine fleet’s role in one of Abu Dhabi’s most complex developments.
As part of Sarooj’s large-scale harbor preparation and rock excavation project in Dibba, Al Marwan deployed one of its largest coordinated marine fleets counting 51 heavy machines with 125 certified operators. The goal: cut through difficult rocky terrain and prepare the new harbor basin efficiently.
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This operation highlights Al Marwan’s ability to mobilize, operate, and support high-capacity fleets across borders with complete logistics, operator availability, and regional service continuity.
The Ajman Corniche revitalization is a major marine and coastal development aimed at enhancing the city’s waterfront appeal. It required heavy dredging, land reclamation, and coastal reinforcement.
Al Marwan’s fleet of amphibious excavators played a critical role, operating in marshy and shallow-water zones where standard excavators could not perform. With pontoon undercarriages designed for buoyancy and stability, these machines efficiently removed sediment and shaped reclaimed land areas.
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This project highlighted the unique advantage of amphibious marine equipment Dubai, proving that specialized machines can reduce time, cost, and risk in challenging coastal environments.
As one of the UAE’s strategic gateways for oil and logistics, Fujairah Port has undergone major expansion works. Al Marwan Machinery supplied heavy-duty long-boom excavators to tackle dredging and harbor development.
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The Al Dhaid Lake Project represents Sharjah’s ambition to combine infrastructure development with environmental renewal. A massive artificial lake, complete with supporting bridges and road infrastructure, required advanced marine equipment UAE to bring the vision to life.
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To ensure high availability, Al Marwan established an on-site support hub with mechanics, spare parts, and logistics. Through proactive maintenance, training, and 24/7 response, the fleet achieved 95% uptime, even under extreme weather conditions.
Why choose Al Marwan equipment
Marine projects demand machines that can operate in conditions where saltwater, high humidity, and shifting ground create constant challenges. Our excavators, cranes, and pontoons are reinforced with anti-corrosion treatments, specialized undercarriages, and advanced hydraulic systems designed to perform in demanding conditions.
From dredging sediment to piling for new piers, Al Marwan’s fleet covers every requirement. Amphibious excavators can work directly in waterlogged areas, long-boom excavators extend reach for dredging or breakwater construction, while high-bed cranes manage heavy lifting in confined port environments.
Our rental programmes at Al Marwan Machinery are built to support your project every step of the way. With a fleet of over 3,000 specialized heavy machines ready across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman, we provide:
Marine projects are typically long-term and costly, leaving no room for extended downtime. Al Marwan ensures continuous operation through:
Al Marwan is not only a supplier of marine equipment UAE but also a regional leader in custom fabrication and assembly of specialized machinery. Our workshops give us a unique advantage, offering solutions beyond standard OEM configurations to meet the demanding needs of marine and coastal works. This innovative approach to building is what earned Al Marwan the prestigious 2025 Innovation of the Year Award at the CMME Awards, cementing our reputation as a pioneer in heavy machinery solutions across the GCC.
Our solutions go far beyond standard OEM offerings to include amphibious conversions, high-bed assemblies, and custom boom extensions.
One of our strongest capabilities lies in the fabrication of long-reach booms. Using locally sourced, high-tensile steel, our engineering team manufactures custom booms ranging from 9 meters to an impressive 32 meters. Each boom is precision-welded, stress-tested, and designed to integrate seamlessly with hydraulic systems.
Standard excavators often face limitations when working near quay walls, jetties, or barges. To solve this, Al Marwan engineers elevated undercarriages that raise the operating platform, creating high-bed excavators with improved visibility, clearance, and digging angles.
Al Marwan also modifies standard crawler excavators into amphibious units, mounting them on specialized pontoons fabricated in-house.
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Expertise across every marine project
Al Marwan provides specialized marine heavy equipment and technical expertise for projects that shape the UAE’s coastline.
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Al Marwan provides a full range of marine equipment and marine heavy machinery, including amphibious excavators, long-boom excavators, high-bed units, crawler cranes, floating pontoons, and piling rigs. Our fleet supports dredging, reclamation, canal works, quay wall construction, and large-scale marine infrastructure across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the wider GCC.
Yes. We provide both marine equipment for sale and flexible rental solutions. Contractors can choose from long-boom excavators, amphibious units, marine cranes, and support barges, all backed by OEM parts, technical support, and operator services to meet project-specific needs.
Al Marwan operates and supplies marine heavy equipment from leading global brands including Kobelco, Komatsu, Volvo, Powerscreen, ABI, and others. Our fleet includes specialized long-reach models, amphibious excavators, and crawler cranes adapted for marine and coastal environments.
Yes. We are one of the region’s primary suppliers of amphibious excavators and custom-built long-boom machines, including 22-meter and 26-meter configurations. These marine machinery units are ideal for dredging, slope protection, shallow-water excavation, and port expansion projects.
Yes. We offer full maintenance, 24/7 technical support, and genuine OEM spare parts for all marine machinery. Our workshops in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman, plus mobile service units, ensure high uptime for long-duration marine projects throughout the GCC.
