CEMEX is providing building materials for the expansion of the Khalifa Port South Quay in the United Arab Emirates.
The company has supplied over 400,000m3 of advanced semi-dry heavy-duty concrete, which it says is suitable for container terminal projects such as Khalifa Port.
“This material is ideal for big projects thanks to its improved performance, which withstands the port’s traffic of more than 12 million tons of general cargo per year,” CEMEX comments.
Khalifa Port, located halfway between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, was officially inaugurated in December 2012 by the president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The deep-water port is the first semi-automated container port in the GCC region, and construction of the port was planned to keep environmental impact to an absolute minimum.
Khalifa Port’s 8km long breakwater is the longest in the Middle East and is designed to allow the Gulf’s currents to flow freely, while protecting and preserving the local marine ecosystem.
Owned by Abu Dhabi Ports, the port handles general cargo, container, roll-on and roll-off (RoRo) as well as break-bulk activities.
Khalifa Port’s maritime infrastructure includes twelve of the world’s largest ship-to-shore quay cranes, 42 automated stacking cranes and 20 straddle carriers. The port has the ability to serve the largest ships at sea, with flexibility for future expansion, and also currently allows the handling of all of Abu Dhabi’s container traffic with an annual capacity of 2.5 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units).
