Where is jebel ali port

It consists of 32 quay cranes and 8 berths and has room to load and unload cargo of up to 6. It is also known as one of the largest semi-automated terminals in the world.

T3 consists of 5 berths and has a shipping capacity of up to 3. Container Terminal 4 T4 is currently under construction. Jebel Ali Port has a warehouse that caters to consolidation and deconsolidation of shipment. The Container Freight Station located outside Gate 2 at the port stores goods and products that needs to be shipped to various exporters or importers in or around the Gulf region.

Spread over , sqm, CFS has 11, sq. Size: Breakbulk: Draft Containers: Draft Ro-Ro: Draft Bulk: Draft Tankers: , d.

Gas: Draft Fuel: By barge or road tanker. Airport: Al Maktoum Int'l, 16 km. This in turn led to a need to add more capacity to Jebel Ali Port to cope with the growth in the shipping sector across the region. An extensive strategic plan was put in place that would allow DP World to expand the capacity of Jebel Ali Port to around 50 million TEU twenty foot equivalent container units by over 14 stages, as market demand dictates.

Construction work at the first stage of this plan started in to build a new container terminal Terminal 2 at Jebel Ali Port. Phase 2 of the expansion is underway and completion is expected by the end of the first quarter this year, bringing around three million TEUs online. The port dealt with more than , vessels in Construction of the port began in and was officially inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II in The port was primarily constructed to supplement Port Rashid, which became inadequate for the growing number of cargo ships.

Construction on the first phase of T2 at Jebel Ali Port expansion began in and was completed in August The second phase of the T2 expansion was started in The expansion necessitated the dredging of 25 million cubic metres of soft rock from the seabed to create certain offshore parts of the terminal and the construction of an island on other side of the new quay wall.

The construction work also included the creation of 6.