Dubai Maritime City lays the foundation for new shiplifts
Dubai Maritime City, the world’s largest and the most comprehensive maritime complex in the world, has announced the lifting and placement of the first shiplift within its Industrial Precinct last week.
Manufactured by world-renowned shiplift specialist company, Hydraudyne Rexroth, the Industrial Precinct of the City will incorporate two shiplifts side-by-side. One of the shiplifts will be 90m long and 25m wide and designed to lift vessels up to 3000 tonnes while the other will be 140m long and 30m wide and designed to lift boats of up to 6000 tonnes. Both the shiplifts will be capable of 14m vertical travel and the platforms and vessels shall be raised and lowered by a series of winches and steel ropes along the length of the shiplifts. The two shiplifts will facilitate a number of companies operational at Jadaf Dubai to expand their operations.
Dubai Maritime City is going full steam ahead with setting up the new shiplift facilities, which will be commissioned by March 2007. Construction of the support structures for the new facilities is currently under way.
Commenting on this, Amer Ali, Project Manager of Dubai Maritime City, said: ‘The placement of the shiplift platform is a key milestone for Dubai Maritime City, indicating the fast pace at which the project is being developed. This procedure and activity is critical as it will pave the way for future developmental work at the Industrial Precinct and will provide a major boost to our iconic project and is in line with our objectives to have easy access, conformity and fulfillment of our industry requirements.’
When completed, Dubai Maritime City will be the world’s biggest and the most comprehensive maritime complex spread across 227 hectares of man-made peninsula between Port Rashid and Dubai Dry Docks, and will be surrounded by the waters of the Arabian Gulf.
