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Concluded the work of dredging in the port of Jebel Ali
the terminals of DP World will be able to receive at the same time until ten large ones portacontainer from 18.000 teu
April 8, 2013
The terminalista group DP World of Dubay has announced the completion of an intense program of work of dredging to Jebel Ali, that it is the more important port of the group that manages you 22 docks dedicated to the traffic of the container besides terminals used for other types of traffics. The deepening of the founded ones will allow with the terminals to receive at the same time until ten large ones portacontainer of the next generation, ognuna in a position to loading 18,000 teu, making of the port of call - it has emphasized DP World - "the single port of the region in a position to making it".
"Which gateway for the commerce of the United Arab Emirates, the Middle East and the entire region - the president of DP World has explained, Ahmed Bin Sulayem - we have always updated the ability to Jebel Ali to the aim to assure that it is online with the necessities of the customers. Since many our customers introduce larger ships in their fleets, we have answered dredging the docks in order to increase the efficiency since they are a fundamental ring of the most traded supply chains of the world". "Currently - he has confirmed Mohammed Al Muallem, senior vice president and managing director of DP World for the region of the United Arab Emirates - every week the port of Jebel Ali work medium three portacontenitori ships hooligan-large ULCS with an ability at least 14,000 teu and we are convinced that the number will increase constantly in the next few years".
DP World has remembered that the dredging work is realized while work of widening of the terminalistiche areas is on that will allow to increase the annual ability to traffic of the container of the port of a million teu to the Container Terminal 2 within the end of this year and other four million teu to the Container Terminal 3 within 2014.
The dredging has involved the removal of 477.000 cubic metres of sediments from the backdrops of the 2,900 meters of the three docks of container terminal of the port, where the escavo it has carried the backdrops from -14 to -16 meters, let alone of the terminal ro-ro and the terminal for liquid bulk, where the backdrops are deepened by -10,5 to -11,5 meters.
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The terminalista group DP World of Dubay has announced the completion of an intense program of work of dredging to Jebel Ali, that it is the more important port of the group that manages you 22 docks dedicated to the traffic of the container besides terminals used for other types of traffics. The deepening of the founded ones will allow with the terminals to receive at the same time until ten large ones portacontainer of the next generation, ognuna in a position to loading 18,000 teu, making of the port of call - it has emphasized DP World - "the single port of the region in a position to making it".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
