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Khalifa Port () is the
Abu Dhabi Ports AD Ports Group ( ar, مجموعة موانئ أبوظبي; formerly Abu Dhabi Ports Company and ADPC) serves as the region's premier facilitator of logistics, industry, and trade, as well as a bridge linking Abu Dhabi to the world, the Group op ...
' flagship deepwater port. It is a gateway to
Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (, ; ar, أَبُو ظَبْيٍ ' ) is the capital and second-most populous city (after Dubai) of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the centre of the Abu Dhabi Metropolitan Area. ...
and handles all of the emirate’s container traffic. The transfer of container traffic from
Zayed Port Zayed Port () also called Mina Zayed, is a commercial deep-water port owned by the Abu Dhabi Ports that serves Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Established in 1968, Zayed Port is in the northeast section of Abu Dhabi city. It was officially inaug ...
was completed in December 2012. Khalifa Port has a Phase 1 capacity of 2.5 million TEUs and 12 million tonnes of general cargo a year and an expected capacity of 15 million TEUs and 35 million tonnes of general cargo by 2030.Profile of Abu Dhabi Ports
/ref> After a three-month transition of container operations from Abu Dhabi's
Zayed Port Zayed Port () also called Mina Zayed, is a commercial deep-water port owned by the Abu Dhabi Ports that serves Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Established in 1968, Zayed Port is in the northeast section of Abu Dhabi city. It was officially inaug ...
, Abu Dhabi Ports' Khalifa Port was officially inaugurated by the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh
Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ( ar,  خليفة بن زايد بن سلطان آل نهيان‎; 7 September 1948 – 13 May 2022) was the second president of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler of Abu Dhabi, serving f ...
on 12 December 2012.


Geography

The port is part of the Maritime
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that runs from the Chinese coast to the south via the southern tip of
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to
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, from there through the
Red Sea The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; T ...
via the
Suez Canal The Suez Canal ( arz, قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ, ') is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia. The long canal is a popular ...
to the Mediterranean, there to the Upper Adriatic region to the northern Italian hub of
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with its rail connections to
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, Eastern Europe and the
North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian S ...
. The port island, which includes the region’s only semi-automated container terminal, is 2.7 km2 (1.05 square miles) and is situated some 5 km (3.12 miles) offshore. It is joined to the onshore by a north and south causeway and a 1 km-long road and utility bridge. The port’s container yard has nine of the world's largest ship-to-shore quay cranes, 42 automated stacking cranes, and 23 shuttle carriers. The onshore port area, which connects the port with
Kizad KIZAD or the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi ( ar, مَدِيْنَة خَلِيْفَة ٱلصَّنَاعِيَة, Madīnat Khalīfah Aṣ-Ṣanā'iyah) was unveiled in November 2010 by Abu Dhabi Ports in Abu Dhabi, and officially opened in Se ...
( Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi) hosts customs, immigration, container freight, inspection, and security facilities. The semi-automated process allows more container capacity with minimal congestion and faster turnaround times, compared to older methods. The inventory stacks in the yard are fully automated, and the delivery and loading information and advanced GPS tracking information is fully integrated with customs to increase throughput. The port’s software and wireless technologies provide integrated movement of containers through the port. It has transport links to Abu Dhabi and beyond via high-speed road. rail connections were planned. On 29 October 2014 Abu Dhabi Terminals celebrated the handling of 2 million containers at Khalifa Port. On 24 February 2013
Abu Dhabi Ports AD Ports Group ( ar, مجموعة موانئ أبوظبي; formerly Abu Dhabi Ports Company and ADPC) serves as the region's premier facilitator of logistics, industry, and trade, as well as a bridge linking Abu Dhabi to the world, the Group op ...
chairman
Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber ( ar, سلطان أحمد الجابر, born August 31, 1973) is a Cabinet Member and Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates, Managing Director and Group CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil ...
announced that Khalifa Port would be the official
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for football team
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during the 2013 AFC Champions League. After reaching 905,000 TEUs in 2013, a rise of 17 percent, container traffic at Khalifa Port is expected to climb to around 1.3 million TEUs by the end of 2014, a further increase of 22 percent.


Khalifa Port Container Terminal

The container terminal at Khalifa Port is managed and operated by
Abu Dhabi Terminals Abu Dhabi Terminals ( ar, شركة مرافئ أبوظبى) or ADT was established in May 2006, by Emiri Decree No. (6) as the main port operator for all commercial ports in Abu Dhabi supporting the economic diversification in Abu Dhabi’s 2030 ...
(ADT), a joint venture between Abu Dhabi Ports,
Mubadala Mubadala Investment Company PJSC ( ar, شركة مبادلة للاستثمار), or simply Mubadala, is an Emirati state-owned holding company that acts as a sovereign wealth fund. The company was established in 2017 when then-named Mubadala Dev ...
and Mubadala Infrastructure Partners. ADT signed a 30-year concession agreement with Abu Dhabi Ports to manage and operate Khalifa Port Container Terminal until 2042. Abu Dhabi Terminals was established in 2006 as the operator of all ports in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and formerly operated Zayed Port and the Freeport in Musaffah. Under Abu Dhabi Terminals' leadership, Khalifa Port Container Terminal has tripled the container trade in Abu Dhabi and currently connects Abu Dhabi to 62 direct international destinations. In 2015, Abu Dhabi Terminals handled 32% more containers. The terminal moved 1,504,293 TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units/containers), up from 1,137,679 TEUs in 2014. In H1 2016, Abu Dhabi Terminals volume at Khalifa Port grew by 11%, taking the lead again in the Middle East region for fastest growing container terminal as most ports announced flat or negative growth. The port is also the first port in the middle east to have autonomous port truck systems. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q-9dvjA7MNk


See also

*
Musaffah Port Musaffah Port () is an Abu Dhabi Ports' port located in the industrial town of Musaffah south west of the city of Abu Dhabi. The deepwater Musaffah Port and Musaffah Channel include a general cargo terminal at the northwest corner of the Musaffah ...
, the dedicated port for Abu Dhabi's
Musaffah Muṣaffah ( ar, مُصَفَّح) or Musaffah is an industrial district to the southwest of Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. Also known as ''Muṣaffah Aṣ-Ṣanāʿiyah'' ( ar, مُصّفَّح ٱلصّنَاعِيَة), it is one of the mo ...
Industrial Zone.


References


External links


Abu Dhabi Ports
* Abu Dhabi Terminals www.adterminals.ae {{Abu Dhabi Transport in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Ports and harbours of the United Arab Emirates 2012 establishments in the United Arab Emirates Transport in the Arab League