Logistics and freight handling

Building or upgrading your industrial facility requires experience and a comprehensive understanding of your goals and your site’s specific needs. As an extension of your staff, we walk beside you through your capital improvement projects. Our skilled and knowledgeable team focuses on “inside the fence” work for:

Hanson designed rail infrastructure for a new, world-scale petrochemical complex, including an ethane cracker and derivatives project under construction at a site adjacent to an existing facility in the U.S. Gulf Coast.
U.S. Gulf Coast
  • industrial plants
  • raw material production sites (petrochemical plants, refineries, mines and mills)
  • distribution and terminal facilities (intermodal, rail storage yards, transload facilities)

We start by planning and permitting your project, then provide design services for civil and logistics support facilities, including:

  • drainage
  • storm sewer plants
  • solid waste
  • roads
  • railroads
  • building and industrial process structures
  • production and logistic operational analysis
  • market assessments
  • financial modeling of cost and benefits
  • material handling
  • nonproduction process-related design work and environmental remediation

Our team works with you to define and enhance your value stream with market studies and opportunity validation relating to origin and destination markets and transportation options; planning and assessing commercial capabilities, such as changing transportation modes and strategic sourcing; modeling operations, including service levels, improvements and the resultant capital expenditure and operating expense costs and benefits; and life-cycle asset management, design, procurement and construction contract administration.

WHAT CLIENTS ARE SAYING
“Hanson has provided ground-up design, engineering and construction support, resulting in exceptional project delivery.”
David Golightlyproject director, LyondellBasell Industries

Our services
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Does your project comply?

The complex web of environmental regulatory requirements can be a high hurdle for many projects. With our guidance, you can smoothly navigate the path to a completed permit checklist.

Our services
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Railway and track structures

Our experienced railway staff stands ready with a range of services to address your needs, from heavy rail to intermodal facilities and bridges, with an eye toward innovation and honoring our natural world.