Eco Xblocs provide good marine habitat

Specially designed Xblocs were found to encourage the presence of marine life.

The results of the final year of monitoring of the ‘Rich Dike’ project at IJmuiden in the Netherlands have been published and seem to show that the specially designed Xblocs used at the port encourage marine life.

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