Paul Curwen

Ports and Maritime Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa

Paul Curwen is Ports and Maritime Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Moffatt & Nichol. The firm is an American engineering house specialising in coastal and port infrastructure since the middle of the last century, its work including the design of container terminals, dry docks and breakwaters, dredging and coastal reclamation. This kind of engineering differs from general civil engineering because it works in a moving medium: currents, waves, tides and sediment transport alter the site itself after handover, so design must account for a service life and sea level rise scenarios that land projects never face.