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Capital Signal

Capital Signal Company Limited

Marine construction · Coastal engineering · Port services · Geosciences

Company

Legal name
Capital Signal Company Limited (CSCL)
Founded
1992, Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago
Ownership
Trinidadian owned and registered
Head office
LP#62 Western Main Road, L'Anse Mitan, Carenage, Trinidad and Tobago
Telephone
+1 (868) 694-2725
Fax
(868) 694-2108
Email
cssales@capitalsignal.com
Regional offices
Ciudad del Carmen (Mexico) · Kingston (Jamaica) · Georgetown (Guyana)

Divisions

Construction & Engineering
Marine Construction & Engineering Ports, rivers, coastal protection, dredging and reclamation — designed, engineered and built by one team.
Port & Shore Base
Port Facility & Shore Base Our own 4.5-acre waterfront facility in Carenage — mobilise on short notice, independent of third-party backlogs.
Geotechnical
Geotechnical Investigations Offshore and onshore site investigation, sampling and reporting — the ground truth before anything is built.
Geophysical & Survey
Positioning, Navigation, Survey & Geosciences Critical, time-sensitive data for multi-billion-dollar exploration, drilling, harbour and dredging operations.

Facility

Berthing
1,200 linear ft across 6 berths
Water depth
Up to 6 m alongside
Waterfront
4.5 acres with multiple laydown and storage options
Crane capacity
175 t onsite crane and wet docking services
Cargo handling
45 t on site
On-site trades
Welding · fabrication sandblasting and painting
Utilities
Potable water and waste removal services
Support
Office accommodation on the facility

Plant and instruments

Lifting & heavy plant

Crane barges
Crane barge operations with associated heavy equipment
Onsite cranes
Up to 175 tons
Cargo handling
Up to 45 tons on site
Ultra-heavy lifts
Specialised and ultra-heavy lift capability
Excavators & lifting gear
Owned and operated fleet

Marine fleet

Barges
Owned barge fleet for transport and marine works
Support vessels
Five vessels supporting port and marine operations
Wet docking
Vessels, barges and small jack-up rigs, mobilised on short notice

Piling & ground engineering

Tubular & sheet piling
Concrete, steel and composite systems
Zero-percussion screw piling
No vibration — for work beside sensitive structures
Dynamic pile testing
PDA testing for pile verification

Geotechnical systems

Conventional rotary drilling
Onshore and offshore
Rock coring
Core recovery in hard ground
Wireline CPT
Cone penetration testing, wireline deployed
Seabed CPT (Roson)
Seabed-frame cone penetration testing
Jumbo piston core
Long undisturbed marine samples
Gravity core
Rapid seabed sampling

Survey & positioning

Multi-beam echosounder
Full-coverage bathymetry
Single-beam echosounder
Line bathymetry and dredge control
DGPS / RTK
Precise positioning and navigation
2D high-resolution seismic
With real-time onboard processing (Geotrace JV)
ROV systems
Inspection class to light working class (Submersible Systems Inc.)

Fabrication & marine support

Steel fabrication & welding
On-site fabrication shop
Grit-blasting & painting
Surface preparation and coating
Ship and maritime repairs
Alongside our own quay
Dive support
Commercial dive support services
Wreck & structure removal
Marine demolition and recovery

Awards

2009
Contractor of the Year (Civil) Trinidad and Tobago Contractors Association
2011
Innovation & Overall Contracting Caribbean Construction Awards
2010
National Safety Award — Finalist OSHA National Safety Awards, Company Award (Large)

Territories worked

Trinidad & Tobago · Tobago · Barbados · Saint Lucia · St Vincent & the Grenadines · Grenada · Antigua & Barbuda · Montserrat · St Kitts & Nevis · Saba · St Maarten · British Virgin Islands · Dominica · Curaçao · Guyana · Suriname · Venezuela · Haiti · Dominican Republic · Jamaica · Mexico

Selected projects

Barbados
Rockley to Coconut Walk Beach Restoration & Boardwalk Barbados
Barbados
Holetown Beach & Boardwalk Holetown, Barbados
Barbados
Constitution River Boardwalk Rehabilitation Bridgetown, Barbados
Barbados
Bridgetown Port Extension — Piling Bridgetown, Barbados
Barbados
Welches Beach Restoration Welches, Barbados
Barbados
Hastings Park Waterfront Hastings, Barbados
Barbados
Barbados Hilton Hotel Shoreline Needham’s Point, Barbados
Saint Lucia
Vieux Fort Breakwater Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia
Castries Jetty Castries, Saint Lucia
Antigua & Barbuda
Antigua Ferry Jetty St John’s, Antigua
Saba
Fort Bay Harbour & Excavation Saba, Dutch Caribbean
St Kitts & Nevis
Four Seasons Resort Waterfront St Kitts & Nevis
St Vincent & the Grenadines
L’Ansecoi Bay Mustique, St Vincent & the Grenadines
Curaçao
Curaçao Marine Works Curaçao
Guyana
Guyana Sand Delivery Georgetown, Guyana
Trinidad & Tobago
CSCL Port Facility & Shore Base Carenage, Trinidad

Clients

National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago · National Infrastructure Development Company (NIDCO) · BP Trinidad & Tobago · BHP Billiton · Shell · Chevron · ConocoPhillips · EOG Resources Trinidad Ltd. · Petrotrin · NGC · Atlantic LNG Trinidad & Tobago · Proman · Repsol YPF · Pemex · PdVSA · Inpex · Murphy · Centrica (Petro-Canada) · Canadian Superior · Transocean · Noble Drilling · Pride Offshore · Technip USA Inc. · Heerema Marine Contractors · AllSeas · Worley-Parsons · ODL / Noble Denton · Bayfield Energy (Galeota) Ltd. · IPSL · Mexdril · TODCO · CAMSA · OTSL · U.S. Navy — NAVFAC Southeast · Barbados Port Inc. (BPI) · Barbados Tourism Investment Inc. · Barbados Coastal Zone Management Unit · Barbados WIRD Outfall Project · St. Vincent and the Grenadines Port Authority · Montserrat Port Authority · Antigua Pier Group Limited · National Authorising Office for the European Development Fund, Antigua · Government of St. Lucia · Ministry of Planning · Ministry of Culture — TIDCO · The Mustique Company · Baird and Associates · Marine Consultants · NIDCO Water Taxi · Crews Inn Hotel & Yachting Centre · Trinidad & Tobago Yacht Club · Shorelands CMC Ltd. · PresT Con · NH International · Kitano Construction · Alcoa Steamship Co Inc. · West Indies Oil Co. · E. Caribbean Gas Pipeline Company · J.V. Adra-Sdi · Selsi Ltd. · Renaissance Towers · Chagterms Trinidad Limited · The Towers, Westmoorings · Saba Island · Red Bull Trinidad · Pirates of the Caribbean (production), and more.

HSSE

We will aim at all times to exceed expectations — our customers’, our employees’ and our own — while delivering our services safely, responsibly and without harm to our environment.

Making good use of our health, safety and environmental commitment, Capital Signal believes that all injuries are preventable.

Issued by Capital Signal Company Limited, Carenage, Trinidad and Tobago. Berthing figure reported in Caribbean Journal, 13 May 2024; company’s own published capability states over 300 m of vessel berthing capacity.
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