Bigger ships, faster turn times, sedimentation and shoaling, and inland transportation are but a few of the challenges facing today's port and harbor operators. Expanding, modernizing, maintaining and remediating ports and harbors requires a multi-disciplinary approach to meet modern economic and regulatory demands. The ARCADIS Sediment and Waterfront group has developed a national reputation for our port planning and channel design work by building integrated, multi-disciplinary teams of scientists and engineers to develop fresher ideas, better outcomes, and unified solutions.

ARCADIS provides unparalleled port planning services that comprehensively look to our client's short-term needs and long-term goals—we understand the challenges and demands of working in today's port environments, and are adept at keeping today's operations on-track while designing and installing the physical and natural infrastructure necessary to meet the demands of tomorrow.

The ARCADIS team offers the skill sets needed to assess, conceive, and design all aspects of a major change in the shape of any waterfront. Among our specialties are dredging design—including volume computations, production analysis, and equipment selection—and master planning for the handling of dredged material generated from both navigational and remediation dredging projects.

Our multi-disciplinary approach to meeting the modern economic and regulatory demands placed on waterfront operators allows us to comprehensively look to our client's long-term needs and goals, whether that means designing a channel deepening project to accommodate post-Panamax shipping, engineering the waterside to more effectively move cargo, or developing win-win designs that meet the economic and environmental needs of waterfront operators.