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Port development
and maintenance

Boskalis provides integrated solutions for a fully operational port - from the development of new ports to the improvement or expansion, maintenance and protection of existing ports. We cover all project phases from (pre-) feasibility and design through to construction, including dredging access channels, environmental monitoring, soil remediation and financing. We offer comprehensive infrastructure solutions (quay walls, roads, railways, tunnels and bridges) and have over a century experience in land reclamation to accommodate it. We also deliver cost-effective sea defense.

Port development – expertise managing complexity

Boskalis has a proven track record delivering complex port development projects. We use our vast experience and expertise to assess the economic and environmental impacts of your project, and manage the numerous disciplines and contractors involved in the design, planning and time-critical construction phase. We specialise in developing greenfield facilities in remote locations with limited access and infrastructure, and a heightened environmental focus.

Port protection – cost-effective, sustainable solutions

Boskalis designs, constructs and maintains breakwaters and revetments to protect your port. This may involve seabed preparation and rock installation. Our expertise in quarry management, logistics and in-situ production of concrete elements, enables us to optimize the construction process to deliver an integrated, cost-effective sea defense. Through our subsidiary Boskalis Hirdes, we can also remove unexploded ordnance.

Port infrastructure – streamlining execution

Ensuring excellent connections with the hinterland requires a wide variety of port infrastructure solutions. We streamline execution by managing subcontractors, communicating with stakeholders, eliminating interfaces and/or acting as a specialist subcontractor. We have the expertise to create new land required for development and new infrastructure.

Involve Boskalis early on and we can improve your processes, mitigate risks, minimize uncertainties and deliver the solutions you seek.

Our port development solutions

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Land reclamation through rainbowing

We use various techniques to reclaim land and protect shorelines.

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Environmental monitoring

Environmental opportunities and concerns are incorporated early on.

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Land reclamation through pump ashore

We use our state-of-the-art fleet of dredging vessels and specialized equipment.

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Dredging access channel through shore

This technique was put into practice at Açu Port, Brazil.

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Soil improvement by compacting and vertical/horizontal drainage

Cofra is our ground improvement specialist.

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Soil remediation by separation and dewatering plant

Boskalis Environmental processes contaminated dredged material.

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Land reclamation through bottom doors discharging

One of the techniques we use to reclaim land and protect shorelines.

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Dredging access channel/turning circles/berth pockets

With our fleet of trailing suction hopper dredgers, cutter suction dredgers, backhoes.

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Drilling, blasting and dredging of hard rock

Boskalis Rock Fall is our specialist in marine drilling and blasting.

Our port protection solutions

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Quarry management

We can provide a complete mining package.

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Concrete blocks fabrication

For the Cotonou project Xbloc elements were produced under our own management

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Revetment design, construction and maintenance

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Transportation of rock to site

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Breakwater design, construction and maintenance

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Detached breakwater design, construction and maintenance

Seabed preparation and rock installation can be essential activities.

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Clearance of unexploded ordnance

Boskalis Hirdes EOD Services has in-depth knowledge and extensive experience.

Our port infrastructure solutions

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Combi-wall design, construction and maintenance

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Retaining wall design, construction and maintenance

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Land reclamation

We use various techniques to reclaim land and protect shorelines with our versatile fleet.

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Blockwall design, construction and maintenance

Foundation preparation and installation of scour protection and blocks.

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Construction of rail(roads), tunnels and bridges

Our projects

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Port expansion, Tuas Mega Port Singapore

Boskalis is part of a consortium that won a contract related to the construction of the Tuas Mega Port in Singapore. After Shanghai, Singapore is not only the world's largest container port, it also handles 50% of global crude oil production and it is the planet's busiest transit port. The port is the economic motor of Singapore, which is constantly struggling with a shortage of land.

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Port maintenance,
Açu Port

Açu Port in São João da Barra, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) is one of the largest port-industry complex in Latin America. The port consists of two terminals: T1, an offshore terminal for handling iron ore and oil, and T2, an onshore terminal built around the inner navigation channel which accommodates offshore supply companies and will handle bauxite, general cargo and vehicles.

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Maintenance dredging, Yangon River

Located close to the city centre on the Yangon River, Yangon Port has been the main port to Myanmar since colonial times. Currently, the port has capacity for vessels of up to 15,000 –20,000 DWT and works are scheduled to increase the port’s capacity for vessels up to 35,000 DWT.

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Port development,
Libreville - Gabon

A new area was constructed in the Port of Libreville for a mineral terminal, dry dock, fishing port, processing facilities and other port activities, such as aggregate processing. This new port development was required to improve and strengthen the logistic capacity for the inland mining industry, to reduce export costs, and thus to increase the competitiveness of mineral exports from Gabon.

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Wreck removal, Baltic Ace

On 5 December 2012, the car carrier Baltic Ace sank with more than 1,400 cars on board after a collision with a container ship near the entrance of the main shipping lane leading to Rotterdam port.

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Port development, Cherbourg

To accommodate an assembly plant for wind turbines, a 220 m quay wall had to be added to the existing quay and two hectares of land behind the new quay had to be reclaimed.