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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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Overview activities, Bahrain

The Kingdom of Bahrain is an island located in the Gulf, east of Saudi Arabia and north of Qatar and connected with its neighbour Saudi Arabia since the year 1980 with a 25 km long causeway. The archipelago consists of some 30 islands with a total of 160 km of shoreline and has a population of 800,000. Whereas the surface of Bahrain in the year 1960 was around 650 km2, the last decennia have seen a steady increase in the surface till a respectable figure of 740 km2 in 2007. This increase has been achieved by a various number of small and mayor reclamation projects.

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Port expansion, Gijón

The Spanish port of Gijón on the Bay of Biscay processes more than 12 million tonnes of bulk goods annually. With the expansion of global trade and increasing ship sizes, the terminal was lacking capacity to handle the traffic. The maximum draft for the ships of 18 meters is another obstacle to the development of the port. So the Port Authority of Gijón developed a plan for additional modern facilities in an area measuring 145 hectares to the north of the existing port. This includes a bulk terminal with a transfer capacity of more than 25 million tons and a storage area measuring 60 hectares for a maximum of 2 million tons of coal and iron ore a year.

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Port development, Sevilla

Seville is located 80 km land inwards and it is Spain’s only commercial river port. Access is along the Rio Guadalquivir. The current dimensions and depth of the port impose limitations on the breadth and draughts of the vessels that use it, putting the future of the port at risk. So the Port Authority developed a New Maritime Approach that provides for the deepening and widening of the approaches to the port.

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Port expansion, Fremantle

Fremantle Ports is the Western Australian Government trading enterprise responsible for strategic management of the Port of Fremantle. The Port of Fremantle provides modern deep-water facilities for handling container trade, break-bulk vessels, livestock exports and motor vehicle imports as well as accommodating cruise ships.

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Extension cruise
terminal, the Bahamas

In April 2009 Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. was awarded the contract for the extension of the cruise terminal in Nassau from the Ministry of Works and Transport of the Government of the Bahamas. The contract was worth approximately USD 44 million and the project was completed in the first six months of 2010.

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Dredging and reclamation, Port of Peterhead

The project consisted of capital dredging, reclamation, quay construction and breakwater extension works for Peterhead Smith Embankment Development, in order to develop the area in the north of the harbour at Smith Embankment to provide sheltered berths for vessels ranging from 20 to 160 m in length.