Unlock the full potential of your port and marine infrastructure with RINA North America
As a multi-disciplinary engineering company, RINA offers a wide variety of services to support and improve port and marine infrastructure. We understand port, terminal, intermodal or transload projects are operationally-driven, seeking safe, efficient, and reliable infrastructure that meets business needs. Many of our clients rely on more than one mode of transportation at their terminals, including rail, truck, barge, and air. Our internal teams have professionals who are experts in each of these fields, dedicated to each mode of transportation, providing our clients with comprehensive solutions that include unique insight into each aspect of the project. Focusing on lifecycle and maintenance costs, operational efficiency, and above all safety, RINA remains a go-to source for solutions to today’s most complex challenges at our nation’s ports and terminals. With cost control and operational efficiency at the forefront of client concerns, RINA has the experience and capability to provide value-added, efficient designs and delivery that complies with FRA, AREMA, and port authority standards. Class I railroads, shipping, trucking, and liquid/bulk materials handling clients all rely on RINA for optimizing their facility efficiency and product distribution.
The Jeffersonville Bulk Loading Terminal was delivered as a design-build project for the Ports of Indiana.
The new facility unloads grain and fertilizer products from railcars or trucks and loads them directly onto barges on the Ohio River. The project included design, permitting, procurement, and installation of a half-mile rail loop with a rail scale, rail dump building and pit, marine mooring improvements, conveyance systems, and supporting site infrastructure.
By combining civil, structural, rail, electrical, permitting, construction management, and general contracting services, we helped deliver a multi-modal terminal that connects rail, truck, and river transportation.
At the Wando Welch Terminal near Charleston, the South Carolina Ports Authority needed a new refrigerated container service area within an active port facility.
We constructed the new service area, which included removal of surcharge soil, approximately 30,000 square yards of concrete pavement, a container service canopy, a container wash canopy with hydraulic rack, and expansion of electrical and communication systems. Concrete was batched on site to meet production needs.
The project required careful coordination with port operations and adherence to an aggressive schedule while keeping facility activity moving.
NRG contacted our company to assist in the evaluation and repair of an old dock wall that had experienced a structural failure at their former Collins Generating Station in Morris, Illinois.
We performed investigation and design services, along with construction estimates, to stabilize and partially demolish the dock wall for future stability and safety. The design approach was selected in order to reduce the risk of failure and to mitigate the safety risk to the general public on the adjacent Illinois River.
We also served as the general contractor to perform the repairs, which included demolition of select upper portions of the dock wall, slope stabilization, underwater demolition, and tieback installation.
Following completion of the repairs, our design team performed additional monitoring services to help detect any pending failures along other sections of the wall before they might occur.
