With the State of Rhode Island, the Port is currently investing to modernize and expand the capabilities of its infrastructure to facilitate the growth of its auto port and frozen seafood businesses and new markets such as offshore wind. Moffatt & Nichol’s expertise in port and transportation planning, coupled with our commercial advisory group’s understanding of a project’s economic benefit and impact to the national transportation system provides our clients projects that are appropriately scoped and financially creditable. Moffatt & Nichol engineers developed a concept to retrofit the north berth of the Port’s 75-year old timber pile-supported Pier 1 with a new structure capable of berthing larger pure car/truck carrier (PCTC) vessels, while our commercial advisors performed a Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA) focused on quantifying State of Good Repair benefits and its impact on reducing the lifecycle cost of the pier.