Boskalis, a Papendrecht based company operating in the dredging, maritime infrastructure and maritime services sectors, is responding to the growing need for coastal protection and flood prevention on a global scale.
“As well as through advances in technology, we aim to reduce emissions and ecological impacts through the integration of different stages of coastal maintenance and exploring alternative maintenance strategies,” said Thomas Vijverberg , Deputy Manager Hydronamic and part of the Dutch Coastline Challenge team.
“The Netherlands focus provides a ‘living lab’ for sustainable and scalable coastal maintenance techniques which can then be expanded and deployed internationally.”
Examples of Boskalis’ climate-adaptive projects in 2021 include: