Ports and Marine

We provide specialist services at every stage of the project. By using integrated supply chain planning, GIS (geographic information systems] and dynamic simulation modelling, we can select the optimum transportation routes and modes of transport. We combine these planning skills with multidiscipline engineering expertise to select, design and construct port and intermodal sites that optimise capacities and handling rates.

Our experience of working in the extreme conditions of the Arctic, developing marine and overland transportation routes for mining projects, developing terminal facilities in exposed and remote locations internationally, all help make us a flexible and global partner for developers of port and marine infrastructure.

AMEC’s multi-discipline skills and extensive geographic network of offices provides a unique services offering. Our in-house resources cover environmental services, permitting, coastal engineering, maritime civil and structural and materials engineering, and materials handling design and fabrication.

AMEC also provides specialised marine weather forecasting services, providing operational support to offshore oil companies, major marine contractors and vessel operators.

Services:

• Feasibility studies and concept development
  Our specialists include experts in ship-loaders and unloaders, storage facilities for dry and liquid bulk and barging and lightering systems. They provide concept and economic studies to find the best ways to get products to the port, and then to their ultimate destinations.
• Marine structure design and assessment
  Our geotechnical surveys and structural inspections, both above and below water help to optimize designs, assess damage and recommend repairs to structures damaged through time and the elements. Our structural analyses and meteorological, wave and erosion studies can help predict conditions and determine loadings, strength requirements and other design criteria.
• Marine support structures
  Our knowledge in marine support structures spans across the mining and forestry sectors into the offshore oil and gas industry. Here, massive support facilities are required to construct and supply rigs, as well as to handle the trans-shipment of product to market. For decades we have studied, designed and constructed such facilities, and have been involved from the outset in the development of billion-dollar projects in Atlantic Canada.