Creating horizons

Creating Latin America’s largest port

Brazil — In the north of Rio de Janeiro state, Boskalis is working on the Açu Superport industrial complex, the largest port-industry enterprise in Latin America, rising out of a greenfield. The scope of the work includes the dredging of an access and inner channel, turning basin and harbor basin as well as land reclamation work. Boskalis will also construct the revetments at the entrance of the harbor.

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Realization of the first artificial island in the Americas

Panama — The prestigious project involved constructing an artificial island in the Pacific Ocean off the densely populated shoreline of Panama City. Ten hectares of real estate land were created by using 650,000 cubic meters of rock to form a perimeter and filling it with 1.4 million cubic meters of sand. The island is able to withstand earthquakes and extremely strong forces from wind and waves.

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Co-Mining: offering a complete mining package

Suriname — At the Lelydorp Mining Project in Suriname, Boskalis provided its client Suralco with a complete mining package to extract 3.8 million tons of bauxite. The scope of work included the removal of overburden material, the excavation of the bauxite and the hauling and delivery to a nearby refinery. Employing strict environmental guidelines Boskalis realized an exceptional 98% bauxite extraction result, using sophisticated equipment and survey techniques, a.o. sonic drills and drones.

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Expanding Songdo International City

South Korea — The project consists of reclamation of new land which will be used for residential and commercial developments in Songdo, Incheon. Boskalis will dredge a volume of 23 million m³ to deepen and expand the navigation channels of the two adjacent ports. The dredged material is pumped straight through a 6 km pipeline and used to reclaim the new land for Songdo City. Trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Oranje’ has been deployed to South Korea to undertake the works, which are scheduled to be completed by late 2014.

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Big Foot platform transportation

South Korea-United States — Big Foot, world’s deepest Extended Tension Leg Platform, was transported from Geoje, South Korea to Corpus Christie, USA.

Salvage SEP Orion

Brazil — In 2012 SMIT Salvage successfully removed the diesel oil from the grounded jack-up work platform ‘SEP Orion’. SMIT Salvage was also awarded the wreck removal contract. Floating sheerleg Taklift 4 was used as a work platform, using underwater cutting equipment to cut the legs above the SEP Orion platform. After the par buckling and refloating operation was performed any further potential pollutants were removed. The platform was towed out in a stable condition and scuttled in deep water.

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Creating a 28km-long navigation channel in extremely hard rocky ground

Qatar — The channel will provide access to a yachting marina and to a port for patrol vessels from the Qatar coastguard. The dredged material will be used to create six islands measuring approximately 200 hectares, where resorts will be established. The cutter suction dredgers Taurus II and Phoenix were fitted out with a newly developed cutter head which made it possible to achieve results in extremely hard rocky ground that were thought impossible a few year ago.

Room for the River

The Netherlands — Boskalis is involved in the Room for the River Program in the Netherlands. The goal of the program is to give the five major rivers in The Netherlands more room to be able to manage higher water levels. The measures will be designed in such a way that they improve the quality of the immediate surroundings. One of the projects involved adapting four flood plains along the Lower Rine. Boskalis was responsible for the planning study, design and execution.

Installation of two power cables

Offshore Indonesia — Full turnkey solution for the installation of two 150 kV subsea power cables of 5 km in length, between the islands of Java and Bali. The new power cables contribute to solving Bali’s power shortage. The project was executed by VSMC, a Boskalis VolkerWessels joint venture. Due to the hard and irregular sea bedding and strong currents, Boskalis also placed rock to stabilize the seabed and to protect the power cables.

Container terminal on soft subsoil

Kenya — Boskalis reclaimed land for a new container terminal in the port of Mombasa. The soft subsurface meant that the land was reclaimed layer by layer. Environmental considerations played an important role. The area is rich in coral and Boskalis’ engineering consultancy Hydronamic advised the Kenyan government about the possible impact of the dredging work. The settlement of the soil was speeded up by using drains, an activity for the specialist Boskalis subsidiary, Cofra.

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FPSO anchor installation

Offshore Brazil — Offshore mooring and hook-up of FPSO OSX-3 (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel) in Brazilian waters. The FPSO was successfully installed 90 km off the Brazilian coast, in a water depth of approximately 100 meter. The scope of work for Boskalis Offshore included the positioning of the FPSO’s anchor piles and chains on the seabed and the hook-up operation accordingly. Boskalis Offshore deployed five specially equipped anchor handlers (two from Fairmount) and ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles).

Lucius Spar Transport: a Dockwise precision assignment

Finland — United States — Dockwise’s Mighty Servant 1 moved the 184m-long hull of the Lucius Truss Spar, weighing 23,000 tons, from Finland to the United States. A precision assignment with all sorts of interesting elements: plenty of engineering work, contract management, risk analyses, financial management and close coordination with the client.

Harbor towage assistance Port of Vancouver

Canada — SMIT provides harbor towage assistance in port locations in regions including Northwest Europe (The Netherlands, Belgium and the UK), the Americas (Brazil, Panama and Candada) and the Far East/South East Asia (China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei).

Wreck removal to ensure safe navigation

The Netherlands — Wrecks must be removed when they pose a threat to the environment and safe navigation. In mid-2013, the Dutch Department of Public Works awarded a contract to Boskalis/SMIT for the removal of two wrecks in the North Sea. The floating sheerleg Taklift 6 removed sections of an unidentified wreck and the second wreck, the Belgian fishing vessel Jan Breydel, was raised in its entirety. A safe passage to the Port of Rotterdam has been re-established on one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.

Transport & Installation of 108 foundations

Irish Sea — With 108 wind turbines in the challenging Irish Sea, West of Duddon Sands is one of the largest wind farms in Europe. In a joint venture — Offshore WindForce — Boskalis and Volker Stevin were responsible for the Transport & Installation of the foundations. By using innovative buckets and gripper frames, the world’s largest hydro-hammer and state-of-the-art survey equipment installation time was reduced by almost 40%!

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Providing flood protection

Russia — In St Petersburg Boskalis successfully completed the storm surge barrier between 2009 and 2011. The flood protection consists of a 25 km-long dam that contains six locks and two movable storm surge barriers. In 2013 Boskalis reclaimed 85 hectares of land for the Bronka Terminal in St Petersburg. Furthermore Boskalis started dredging an entrance channel to the new terminal, as well as the turning basin and the berths in the spring of 2014.

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Exceptional ocean transport

China to Mexico — Ship-to-Shore (STS) container cranes were transported from Taicang, China to Manzanillo, Mexico with the semi- submersible heavy-lift vessel Dockwise SWIFT.

Harbor towage assistance from Brazil to Brunei…

Panama — SMIT provides harbor towage assistance in ports across the globe, whether in Northwest Europe, the Americas or Asia. Smit tugs Balboa and Curaçao, are pictured assisting a container vessel in the port of Balboa, Panama.