Moffatt & Nichol
Specialist infrastructure consultancy focused on ports, harbors, marine terminals, and coastal engineering.
Moffatt & Nichol is a global infrastructure advisory and engineering firm that designs and supports infrastructure across ports, transportation, water, environmental, commercial, and architecture-related work. The company says it brings together engineers, planners, and problem-solvers to create infrastructure that connects coasts, communities, and commerce. Its core work includes high-capacity port infrastructure, roads, bridges, rail systems, shorelines, water systems, and spaces shaped by context-sensitive design. It also serves project owners with commercial and planning work such as cargo forecasting, operational analysis, investment planning, feasibility assessment, strategic development studies, and business-related advisory services. In the environmental field, it works on restoration, protection, mitigation, environmental assessment, remediation, permitting, and biological compliance, often in settings where regulations are complex and shoreline or ecosystem conditions are changing. The firm also includes architecture and landscape work focused on integrated, enduring places, and it supports waterfront access and protection through structures such as piers, marinas, wharves, and waterfronts.
A distinctive part of the business is its technology and digital infrastructure practice. Moffatt & Nichol says it connects data, systems, and operations to help infrastructure owners improve visibility, predict conditions earlier, and make better decisions. Its digital capabilities include digital twins, AI, modeling, autonomous inspection, geospatial intelligence, and rail inventory management. The company describes platforms and tools such as NextPort® and FlexTerm® for operational intelligence, terminal simulation, and optimization, along with GIS-enabled systems, reality capture, cloud-based analytics, and predictive maintenance insights. It applies these digital methods across ports, transportation networks, coastlines, and other infrastructure systems.
The company's market scope is broad and international, with work spanning marine terminal, transportation, energy, environmental, federal, and urban development markets. It explicitly serves ports and terminals, freight and mobility, coastal resilience, water resources, commercial development, marina and waterfront clients, railroads, transportation agencies, lenders, and public and private infrastructure owners. Across these markets, the firm emphasizes practical, technically grounded solutions that combine engineering, planning, analysis, and digital tools to support infrastructure over its full lifecycle.