Roadgrip’s Highways Division returned to the Falkland Islands to complete the third year of our three-year contract delivering road markings along the Stanley to Mount Pleasant road. It’s an important route that connects the Islands’ capital with Mount Pleasant Airport. What was once a gravel road is now fully asphalt and lined, creating a safer, clearer, more pleasant driving experience.
Our team departed for the Falklands on New Year’s Day, ready to pick up where we left off.
If you’ve been to the Falklands, you’ll know how quickly conditions can, which is why the shift from gravel to asphalt on a key route isn’t just an upgrade, it’s a practical and necessary transformation.
As this final year of the contract progresses, our focus is on delivering durable, high-quality markings that make the road safer and easier to navigate in all conditions, especially when visibility dips and the landscape stretches out in every direction with very few visual cues.
The Falkland Islands are famously remote. That remoteness is part of what makes work there so rewarding – and so operationally demanding.
Getting a team to site isn’t just booking travel. It relies on our UK logistics team coordinating people, equipment, materials, and timing so everything arrives where it needs to be, when it needs to be there. With limited local supply options, you can’t rely on last-minute fixes. In the Falklands, tomorrow might be a long way away, which is why planning has to be disciplined:
Remote work doesn’t forgive assumptions – it rewards preparation.
While our highways team was focused on the Stanley–Mount Pleasant road markings, another Roadgrip team is also in the Falklands working on a refurbishment project at Mount Pleasant Airbase (MPA).
Different scope, same standard: dependable delivery in a location where simple tasks often have complex realities behind them.
This trip marks our eighth visit to the Falkland Islands in 12 years. Repeat work in remote places comes from doing what you said you’d do, year after year. Showing up prepared, working safely and delivering quality that lasts.
If you’re looking for a top road marking company that can install highly durable highway markings on an international scale, contact us to learn more about how we work in the remote corners of the globe.
