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Construction work on a brand new container terminal at Jebel Ali port in Dubai is now underway. Phase 1 of the Container Terminal 4 (T4) project will deliver 3.1 million teu of extra capacity annually by 2018, taking the port’s total capacity to 22.1 million teu a year. The port complex will be at that stage equipped with at least 110 cranes and will have a total quay length of around 11,000m.
T4 will be located on a reclaimed island north of the existing Terminal 2 and as part of the project a bridge is being built to provide access to the island. Work is scheduled to get the 3000m causeway and bridge partially open to traffic before the end of 2015.
H.E. Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, chairman of DP World, said: “The new capacity is a response to feedback from customers expressing the need for more capacity at Jebel Ali due to an expected increase in trade in the run up to Expo 2020. Shipping lines will be able to bring more of the world’s largest vessels to our terminals, so helping improve the efficiency of the region’s supply chain.”
Meanwhile, Jebel Ali and other DP World terminals in the UAE handled 7.9 million teu in the first half of 2015, representing a growth of 6 percent, compared with the first half of 2014. H.E. Sultan bin Sulayem added: “Jebel Ali continues to respond to market demand as we have in the past. Despite the addition of 2 million teu capacity in Terminal 3, scheduled in the second half 2015, the port still experiences high levels of utilisation.”
Terminal 4 will have a 1200m long quay with an 18m draft, and 13 of the world’s largest and most modern quay cranes, remotely operated from a sophisticated control room off the quayside. Some 35 Automated Rail Mounted Gantry cranes (ARMG) will operate in the yard area of the terminal.
