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Construction of DP World’s new Container Terminal 3 at Jebel Ali is making good progress, and is moving rapidly towards becoming fully operational. Five new quayside gantry cranes have recently arrived on site and new automated landslide stacking cranes are being tested before the start of initial operations in the next few weeks.
CT 3 will have an annual capacity of 4 million teu and will be the world’s largest semi-automated facility once it is fully operational. Its 1860m long quay, which has a 17m draft alongside, will initially be served by nine super-post-panamax ship-to-shore cranes, manufactured by Shanghai-based Zhenhua Port Machinery Company (ZPMC), including five that arrived in June, and four that were delivered last December. A total of 20 Automated Rail Mounted Gantry (ARMG) cranes are also moving on their rails at the 70 hectare yard. When fully completed, the terminal will feature 19 quayside gantry cranes, and these will be remotely operated from a sophisticated control room by Emirati nationals, including females for the first time.
The sophisticated cranes are equipped with the latest technology from ZPMC. While the CT 3 terminal will also benefit from smart mobile applications, a full electronic transaction facility and an advanced Gate Automation system. Each quay crane is over 138m tall at full boom extension, can lift four 20ft containers at one time, is designed with a 69.5 m lift height and has an outreach that is capable of handling the 25 containers-wide on new generation ultra large container ships (ULCS). Once all the cranes on order are in place, there will be 98 quay cranes in total at Jebel Ali. CT3 will increase the total capacity of the port to 19 million teu and will give it the ability to handle as many as 10 ULCS at the same time.
According to Mohammed Al Muallem, senior vice president and managing director, DP World UAE Region,”The new cranes and the new terminal will strengthen Jebel Ali’s position as the most efficient and modern gateway in the region, with the capability to handle the largest giant vessels being ordered by our customers.”
