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Inland ports
and waterways

Boskalis designs, builds and maintains inland ports and waterways. We construct channels and canals, quay walls, locks and sluices. We also offer solutions to combat high river water levels and the effects of severe rainfall. Options include widening rivers, creating secondary channels, upgrading dikes, constructing overflow areas and creating new areas for nature.

Creating cost-effective opportunities

Boskalis specializes in creating opportunities for inland ports and waterways. Costs are always crucial in any large infrastructure project. Our team of specialists not only carefully assesses your project’s economic feasibility and potential risks. We also identify the opportunities – such as re-using dredged material for building material, or to create new recreation and nature areas.

Our inland ports and waterway solutions

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Channels and canals

Design, construction and maintenance.

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Acqueducts, bridges and sluices

Design, construction and maintenance.

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Inland ports

Design, construction and maintenance.

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Quay walls

Design, construction and maintenance.

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Channel

Construction of a channel.

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Shore protection

Design, construction and maintenance.

Our projects

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Dredging and reclamation, Songdo International City

Boskalis has been awarded a contract by Daewoo E&C for the dredging and reclamation of new land for Songdo International City on the waterfront of Incheon, South Korea. The total value of the contract amounts to approximately EUR 80 million.

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Coastline fixation, Cotonou

The project was developed to arrest coastline erosion in the densely-populated centre of Cotonou caused by two phenomena: erosion and human interference along the West African coastline.

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Land reclamation artificial island, Punta Pacifica

The shoreline of Panama has increasingly become densely populated and, as the economy has boomed over the past 10 years, there is strong demand for high-end products. The real-estate market has taken a revolutionary step with the completion of the the first artificial real-estate island in the Americas.

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Port expansion,
Maasvlakte 2

PUMA, the Project Organization for the Extension of the Maasvlakte, is a 50/50 joint venture between dredging and marine contractors Boskalis and Van Oord. The consortium has been contracted by the Rotterdam Port Authority to construct the first phase of the Maasvlakte 2 Project – the extension of the Port of Rotterdam – between 2008 and 2013. The new zone will encompass 2,000 hectares of new land, roughly the same size as the total surface area of Schiphol airport. Half of the area will become land for a future business park.

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Reinforcing Dutch
coastline, Sandmotor

In December 2010 Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. was awarded a contract by the Dutch Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management to reinforce part of the coastline in the province of Zuid-Holland by creating a ‘sand engine’. The total value of the contract is EUR 50 million for the Van Oord- Boskalis consortium, in which Boskalis has a 50% stake.

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Design and construction harbor channel, Sydney harbor

The 'Sydney Harbor Channel Dredging Project' in Nova Scotia, Canada, involved dredging and reclamation work as part of the construction of the new Sydney Port container terminal located on the northeast coast of Canada. Once operational, Sydney Port will be the most northerly deepwater container terminal on the North American east coast.

More infra solutions

Land reclamation

Boskalis reclaimes land, improves soil, protects shorelines and realizes coastal contruction projects.

Coastal protection

Boskalis constructs traditional hard sea defenses and innovative soft sea defenses.

Environmental services

Boskalis provides a broad range of environmental services including remediation of contaminated land and dredged sediment.

Roads and railways

Boskalis develops, supervises and realizes multidisciplinary road and railway projects.

Tunnels and bridges

Boskalis designs, develops and constructs bridges and tunnels, providing solutions covering the entire process.