Khalifa freight station takes trucks off the roads

Emirates Global Aluminium and Abu Dhabi Ports have opened the facility in order to reduce trucking of EGA’s aluminium within Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD) by over 290,000 kilometres per year.

“We are making every effort to enhance logistics efficiency and reduce carbon emissions by reducing the distance of trucks transporting aluminium from Emirates International Aluminium to the quayside, which adds value both commercially and environmentally,” said Captain Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi Ports.

“Our efforts to reduce environmental footprint coincide with the UAE target to reduce carbon emissions.”

Reduced trucks

The new container freight station will be used to load metal into containers for transfer onto ships for export.

It has been purpose built by Abu Dhabi Ports close to EGA’s Al Taweelah site to reduce the trucking distance for each consignment by approximately 17 kilometres.

Last year EGA shipped some 600,000 tonnes of aluminium from Khalifa Port, requiring over 17,000 truck movements from EGA’s site to the quayside.

Total emissions savings from shortening the journey to waiting ships are expected to be over 2,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, which is similar to removing some 450 cars from the UAE’s roads.

EGA exports its metal to customers in more than 60 countries around the world, using 20 different shipping lines to ship to over 70 global ports. The company’s aluminium is the largest made-in-the-UAE export after oil and gas.