Horizon Terminals Ltd, an Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) subsidiary, has announced that it has awarded Punj Lloyd Ltd, the India-based construction conglomerate, with a contract to build a new bulk oil terminal inside Dubai’s Jebel Ali Free Zone.
Her Majesty Queen Beatrix Wilhemina Armgard of the Netherlands, as part of her state visit to the UAE, was welcomed as a guest of honor by DP World Chairman, HE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, at the company’s flagship Jebel Ali Port in Dubai this week.
DP World, the Dubai-based port operator, has announced ambitious plans to invest US$850 million in the expansion of the company’s flagship Port of Jebel Ali in the UAE.
Eight diesel-driven rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes at DP World's Jebel Ali port in Dubai are to be electrified by Cavotec.
DP World Chairman HE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem has welcomed visiting British Transport Minister, Mike Penning MP to DP World’s head office in Jebel Ali, Dubai.
DP World has announced it will add an extra 1 million TEUs of capacity to Jebel Ali port by the end of next year, allowing the facility to handle six 15,000 TEU vessels at once.
The UAE Port of Jebel Ali, Dubai, has welcomed two mega vessels per week in the last fortnight, as the port continues to reinforce its efforts to meet growing customer demands in the Emirate state. DP World's flagship port is often visited by so called mega vessels but the occurance of four in two weeks was seen as a welcome coincidence.
DP World’s flagship Jebel Ali Port has won the prestigious Golden Award for Best Seaport Overall from the Higher Committee for UAE Civil Seaports and Airports Security, under the patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Public Works and Chairman of the Higher Committee.
The future of DP World's Port of Jebel Ali, looks bright if end of year handling figures are anything to go by. The UAE (with Jebel Ali as the leading port) handled 11.6 million TEUs in 2010, a 4% increase over the same period the previous year.
DP world has decided to postpone implementation of a 3rd terminal in Jebel Ali till 2013.
Zebra Enterprise Solutions, a division of Zebra Technologies, today announced Jebel Ali Terminal 1 in Dubai implemented Navis SPARCS Analytics and SPARCS Monitor making it the largest site to benefit from the new business intelligence software.
DP World has further expanded capacity at its flagship Jebel Ali terminal with the arrival of new giant tandem lift gantry cranes, the biggest of its kind in the world, and rail mounted gantry (RMG) cranes for phase two of Container Terminal 2.