Marine and Coastal

Areas of expertise

Valuable resources that keep nations moving, ports servce as a mode of transport for raw materials and manufactured goods as well as a means of transportation for travelers. Atkins comprehensive services address all aspects of port facilities, from planning to funding and from regulatory compliance to operations.

Port planning

Atkins provides optimization studies and design on port/harbor developments with regard to navigation and associated works on waterfront business, leisure development, and industrial development. Emphasis is placed on the aesthetic, environmental, and ecological  considerations while optimizing the port/harbor layout. These services form an essential preliminary to any new port development or port expansion project. They identify its objective in the short and long term by consideration of estimated freight and passenger movement, its optimum location where applicable, and the road, rail, and sea access in terms of traffic demands. They set out the necessary data and forecasts to determine the extent and cost of the project under consideration.

Seaports

Atkins offers comprehensive services in port master planning, site assessments, security, marine and coastal engineering, marine structures, cruise terminal design, intermodal planning, construction management, and program management for seaports. Incorporating innovative solutions to meet the project-specific demands of an evolving maritime industry, Atkins combines specialized port, marine, and environmental disciplines using professional staff from across the nation to provide our clients with the multidisciplinary services necessary to meet all of their needs. We offer port clients a history of successful projects and expertise in providing targeted services for port authorities and agencies throughout the world.

Freight rail

In the competitive environment of freight and logistics, railroad transportation is currently experiencing steady growth in car loadings across North America. Atkins provides both passenger and freight railroad planning, architecture, engineering, and structural design capabilities for railroad applications. Our experience includes major railroad projects across the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Atkins’ freight rail projects in North America include intermodal terminals, dry bulk terminals, liquid and gas bulk terminals, on-port rail yards, switch yards, storage yards, and specialty designs for crossings and loading/unloading terminals. Atkins planners and engineers has extensive experience in port and multimodal transportation including intermodal container transfer facilities, trans-load terminals, seaports, river ports, inland ports, and logistics. Our clients also benefit from Atkins’ understanding of railroad standards with major private railroads and with federal, state, and local government entities including the Federal Railroad Administration and the Federal Transit Administration.

Our comprehensive services related to port planning, seaports, and freight rail are shown here.

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