Re-setting the Productivity Bar: Conceptual Planning of Jebel Ali New Container Terminal, Dubai
Publication: Ports 2007: 30 Years of Sharing Ideas: 1977-2007
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The conceptual plan for the Jebel Ali New Container Terminal (JANCT) in Dubai combines many innovations in one advanced container terminal. The plan is ambitious in both the use of leading edge container handling technology as well as the enormous scale of proposed landfills. Jebel Ali is already renowned as the first terminal to use tandem 40-foot cranes. This paper explains how a mega-terminal is developed from the ground-up around these cranes, so that each aspect remains in balance with the remarkably high wharf productivity that is expected. Specific areas of focus are: 1) the ideal crane gage for tandem-40-foot cranes; 2) comparing twin-20-foot shuttle-carriers with trucks and trailers as a high-speed conveyance mode; 3) comparing twin-20-foot yard cranes that keep pace with the wharf, including rail-mounted gantry cranes (RMGs), rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs), and automatic stacking cranes (ASC); and 4) development of a gate complex capable of massive expansion and high security.
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© 2007 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Business management
- Construction equipment
- Container shipping
- Cranes
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Environmental engineering
- Equipment and machinery
- Freight transportation
- Highway transportation
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulic structures
- Infrastructure
- Innovation
- Landfills
- Materials engineering
- Ports and harbors
- Practice and Profession
- Rail transportation
- Rubber
- Transportation engineering
- Trucks
- Vehicles
- Waste management
- Waste sites
- Water and water resources
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