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CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal opens at Khalifa Port
ABU DHABI: COSCO Shipping
Ports (CSP) Abu Dhabi Terminal at
Khalifa Port was officially opened last
December positioning the UAE capital
as the regional hub for COSCO's
global network of 36 ports and
enhancing its connectivity to major
trade routes along the Belt and Road
Initiative (BRI).
The deepwater, semi-automated
container terminal includes the largest
Container Freight Station (CFS) in the
Middle East, covering 275,000 square
meters.
It offers facilities for full and partial
bonded container shipments, the full
range of container packing services,
short-term warehousing for deconsolidated
cargo as well as easy
connectivity with container terminals
in Khalifa Port, the Emirates News
Agency WAM reported.
The terminal is also the first
international greenfield subsidiary of
COSCO Shipping Ports, a subsidiary of
China COSCO Shipping, the largest
integrated shipping enterprise in the
world. CSP has so far invested AED1.1
billion in capital expenditure on
construction and machinery at the
terminal.
The partnership with COSCO
Shipping Ports is part of a five-year
strategy by Abu Dhabi Ports aimed at
strengthening the maritime sector in
the capital and driving economic
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diversification, in line with Abu Dhabi
Economic Vision 2030, by increasing
regional trade and attracting foreign
direct investment.
Abu Dhabi Ports has earmarked
AED10 billion in investment that will
increase capacity at Khalifa Port from
the current 5 million TEU to 9.1 million
TEU, which also includes boosting
capacity at Terminal 1 to more than 5
million TEU.
The CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal has a
design capacity of 2.5 million TEU and
will begin with a handling capacity of
1.5 million TEU, with 1200 metres of
quay. The water depth of the terminal
is 16.5 meters, allowing it to
accommodate mega-vessels typically
carrying in excess of 20,000 TEU.
CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal is the result
of the 35-year agreement between
Abu Dhabi Ports and COSCO Shipping
Ports whose terminal portfolio covers
the five main port regions in Mainland
China, Southeast Asia, Europe, the
Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
The new terminal is part of Abu
Dhabi Ports' five-year growth strategy
to increase Khalifa Port, with its two
container terminals, to a combined
total capacity of 9.1 million TEUs. The
addition of CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal
has already moved Khalifa Port up
from being the 89th largest container
port in world rankings to within the
top 25.
DB Schenker commits stricter CO2
targets in freight transport
ESSEN, GERMANY: DB Schenker
says it's committed to impose stricter
CO2 reduction targets for commercial
vehicles over 7.5 tons.
"I believe that more can be done and
more must be done," says Jochen
Thewes, CEO of DB Schenker, on the
occasion of Deutsche Bahn's "Green
November" initiative. "To encourage
t h e f o r t h c o m i n g s t r u c t u r a l
transformation in the automotive
industr y and the availability of
alternative drive technologies in freight
transport as well, I consider the
ambitious CO2 reduction targets for
commercial vehicles of 20% by 2025
and 35% by 2030 to be absolutely
feasible.
Having joined the global climate
initiative EV 100, DB Schenker recently
decided to gradually convert its own
fleet of distribution vehicles to
electromobility.
The objective is to retrofit all vehicles
up to 3.5 tons with electric drives or fuel
cells by 2030. Half of all vehicles
weighing between 3.5 and 7.5 tons will
also be electrically powered by then.
Even today, DB Schenker already
operates electric transport vehicles in
Austria, Italy and Norway as well as
electric cargo bikes in a dozen
European cities.
In addition, a pilot project in Germany
together with MAN and Fresenius
University is currently testing the
efficiency of digitally controlled truck
convoys, also known as "platooning".
Together with the Swedish startup
Einride, the world's first electric and fully
autonomous truck was recently put into
commercial operation.