Construction & Engineering
Ports, rivers, coastal improvements, dredging and reclamation — designed, engineered and built by one accountable team.
- Jetties & wharfs
- Breakwaters
- Beach restoration
- Piling
- Dredging
Holetown Beach, Barbados · a construction site given back to the public as a boardwalk
Carenage · Trinidad and Tobago · Est. 1992
We build where the land meets the sea.
Marine construction, coastal engineering, port operations and geosciences — delivered across more than twenty Caribbean territories from our own 4.5-acre waterfront facility.
Carenage · Trinidad and Tobago · Est. 1992
We build where the land meets the sea.
Marine construction, coastal engineering, port operations and geosciences — delivered across more than twenty Caribbean territories from our own 4.5-acre waterfront facility.
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years building the region’s coastlines
Founded in Chaguaramas, 1992
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Caribbean territories and countries worked
Trinidad to Mexico, Guyana to Haiti
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successful geoscience projects
Survey, geophysical and geotechnical
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of berthing across six berths
Our own port facility, Carenage
Who we work with
The specialists we bring with us.
Joint venture — 2D/3D seismic processing and reprocessing
Pipeline services
Strategic partner
ROV services — inspection to heavy working class
Our services
Everything a marine project needs, from one contractor.
Design, ground investigation, survey, construction — and a working quay to run it all from. Three things we are asked for most, and the four divisions that deliver them.
Dockside & Waterfront Services
Wet docking, heavy lifting, repairs, mobilisations, cargo and logistic support from our own 4.5-acre facility in Carenage.
- Wet docking
- 175 t crane
- Fabrication
- Loadouts
- Barge transport
Data Acquisition & Reporting
Survey, oceanographic, geophysical, geotechnical and environmental data — acquired, processed and reported to international standard.
- Bathymetry
- Rig positioning
- CPT & coring
- 2D HR seismic
- ROV
What we do
Four divisions. One contractor. One accountable team.
Most marine projects in this region need a designer, a driller, a surveyor, a piling crew, a barge and a quay to work from — and most clients have to assemble that from five different companies. Capital Signal is all of it, under one roof, on one contract.
We have been doing it since 1992, from Carenage in Trinidad, and our engineers have signed off work in Barbados, Saint Lucia, Antigua, Saba, Curaçao, Guyana, Mexico and beyond.
- Founded
- 1992 Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago
- Headquarters
- Carenage own port facility and shore base
- Offices
- Trinidad · Mexico Jamaica · Guyana
- Recognition
- 3 industry awards quality, innovation and safety
Division 01
Marine Construction & Engineering
Ports, rivers, coastal protection, dredging and reclamation — designed, engineered and built by one team.
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Division 02
Port Facility & Shore Base
Our own 4.5-acre waterfront facility in Carenage — mobilise on short notice, independent of third-party backlogs.
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Division 03
Geotechnical Investigations
Offshore and onshore site investigation, sampling and reporting — the ground truth before anything is built.
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Division 04
Positioning, Navigation, Survey & Geosciences
Critical, time-sensitive data for multi-billion-dollar exploration, drilling, harbour and dredging operations.
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Most jobs need more than one. Tell us what has to be built, surveyed or investigated — and where — and a marine engineer will tell you exactly what we would mobilise.
Selected work
Thirty years of named, photographed, finished jobs.
Not a stock photo in sight — every image below is a Capital Signal project.
Coastal protection
Barbados · 2009
Rockley to Coconut Walk Beach Restoration & Boardwalk
Beach restoration and boardwalk along the Rockley to Coconut Walk shoreline. The project for which the Trinidad & Tobago Contr…
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Award
Breakwaters
Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia
Vieux Fort Breakwater
Breakwater construction at Vieux Fort, including pile jacketing and cross-bracing to final shape.
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Ports
Carenage, Trinidad · 2015
CSCL Port Facility & Shore Base
In 2015 Capital Signal designed and constructed its own full-service shore base and port facility — 4.5 acres of waterfront, 1…
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Ports
Saba, Dutch Caribbean
Fort Bay Harbour & Excavation
Harbour rehabilitation and rock excavation at Fort Bay — the only working harbour on Saba, cut into a volcanic coastline.
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Waterways
Bridgetown, Barbados
Constitution River Boardwalk Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation of the Constitution River waterway and boardwalk in the heart of Bridgetown.
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Hospitality marine
St Kitts & Nevis
Four Seasons Resort Waterfront
Marine and waterfront works for the Four Seasons development — one of the tourism-led projects driving Caribbean marine invest…
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Proof, not adjectives
Holetown Beach, Barbados.
An eroded west-coast shoreline, restored and given back to the public as a boardwalk. Drag the handle to see the difference.
Coastal protection is the discipline where the result either holds or it does not. This is what ours looks like.
Where we work
Twenty-one territories, plotted on the chart.
Every position below is a place Capital Signal has mobilised to. Hover a station to read what we did there.
Office
Territory worked
Positions plotted from published coordinates · hover or tab a station
Recognition
Awarded for quality, innovation and safety.
2009
Contractor of the Year (Civil)
Trinidad and Tobago Contractors Association
For the Rockley to Coconut Walk Beach Restoration and Boardwalk, Barbados.
2011
Innovation & Overall Contracting
Caribbean Construction Awards
Recognised across the region for innovation in contracting.
2010
National Safety Award — Finalist
OSHA National Safety Awards, Company Award (Large)
Shortlisted in the large-company category alongside operators including Atlantic LNG and BPTT.
Trusted by
We routinely service some of the world's largest oil and gas companies, international governments and port authorities. 66 of them are named on our client list.
Partners
Specialists we bring with us.
Joint venture — 2D/3D seismic processing and reprocessingPipeline servicesStrategic partnerROV services — inspection to heavy working classStart here
Tell us what you need built.
Send us the scope, the location and the dates. If we can do it, you will hear from a marine engineer — not a call centre — within one working day.
