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Ports & Terminals

Optimizing ports and terminals for tomorrow's challenges

Challenge

The world’s ports are at the heart of a dynamic and interdependent logistics network that enables global trade. Many of these ports contend with aging infrastructure, budgetary constraints, market competition, rapidly changing technology, competing urban developments, and the ongoing effects of climate change. Managing these challenges requires a comprehensive, innovative, and cost-effective approach to problem-solving that will result in sustainable outcomes for ports, users and the affected communities.

Hatch’s Ports and Terminals team of professionals, have a world of experience that can help you fulfil the functional requirements of your port and/or terminal development or brownfield upgrade, from site selection and master planning through to design, execution and operational support of wharves, piers, coastal structures, and terminal infrastructure, both landside and waterside.

Our team is well-equipped to address future challenges through collaboration with clients on terminal modernization and automation, and the transition to alternative fuels. We are committed to mitigating the impacts of climate change by focusing on decarbonization, adaptation, and resiliency.

 

Solutions

 
Smart container terminals
Container Terminals must use solutions that address the physical, digital, safety, and functional challenges of automated operations. Our comprehensive understanding of automation systems and our experience in implementing and operating terminal solutions around the globe can help you design a highly functional system that delivers your business objectives. Our approach is to work closely with our clients and their equipment and system vendors to ensure that the delivered solution is integrated and supports the client’s operational processes.  We have tools for QA, emulation testing and data analytics, that are unique in the container terminal industry and help clients achieve their goals faster and continue optimizing and improving after handover. 
 
Alternative fuels
The use of alternative fuels, including green ammonia and hydrogen, is growing in response to the global demand for a reduction in carbon emissions. To meet this demand, it’s essential to upgrade existing port and terminal facilities to accommodate conventional products as well as alternate fuels using shared infrastructure. We are actively involved in numerous developments for alternate fuel handling, both brownfield and greenfield, and understand the challenges of handling multiple products in close quarters.
 
Climate change, adaptation, and resilience
In a world of shifting climates, ensuring the longevity of ports and terminals infrastructure demands resilient solutions. Our adaptation planning experts prioritize location-specific climate challenges and assess risks beyond engineering. We collaborate with asset owners to develop road maps for medium and long-term decarbonization of terminals as well as ports as carbon producers. Hatch contextualizes the required actions through clarification of present and future risks, proposing mitigation strategies, and integrate holistic adaptations that consider social, environmental, and economic factors. Our approach embeds these actions into ongoing operations and governance, ensuring the long-term resilience of ports and terminals infrastructure against the effects of climate change. 
 
Master planning 
We are world leaders in supporting our clients with long-range master planning and strategic development. Our approach is multifaceted and focuses on understanding the key economic, environmental, and social drivers to deliver a robust plan. Our team challenges the standard static structure and land use plan. We develop and deliver dynamic masterplans that allow our clients to swiftly evaluate future proposals, invest in infrastructure with confidence, and increase the plan’s relevance. 

Capabilities

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Your materials, delivered to their destination on time and within budget

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Designing, constructing, and optimizing an efficient global supply chain requires more than technical engineering know-how. It needs a partner that can contribute and ensure innovative and cost-effective solutions. We can help, from pit to port.

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