Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. announced appointment of Vijay Agrawal, PE, to lead its expanding national ports and harbors practice. Agrawal brings nearly 25 years of experience in the ports industry, including cargo handling, cruise terminals, naval facilities and container terminals. With a background in port planning and engineering, he has extensive experience in program and project management, operations planning and construction management.

Agrawal is tasked with expanding the company?s relationships with port and harbor owners, maritime authorities and shipping line operators. Agrawal will build Bowman?s national marine practice by 1) rapidly growing the company?s structural engineering team; 2) leveraging the company?s investments in technology-driven solutions such as LIDAR, digital mapping, aerial imagery and automation; and 3) introducing efficiency-oriented solutions addressing decarbonization, capacity expansion, maritime traffic improvement analytics, facility hardening and advanced safety automation systems. Having worked on more than 60 ports across the world, Agrawal has led the planning, design and execution of marquee projects including the Port of Houston Barbours Cut Terminal 87-acre Redevelopment, South Carolina Ports new Hugh Leatherman Terminal, Louisiana International Container Terminal in Port of New Orleans and the Broward County?s Port Everglades master vision plan.