{"id":8332,"date":"2011-10-17T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2011\/10\/17\/abu-dhabis-khalifa-countdown-begins\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:41:35","slug":"abu-dhabis-khalifa-countdown-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/middle-east\/abu-dhabis-khalifa-countdown-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabis Khalifa countdown begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi Terminals chief executive Martijn van de Linde said that Khalifa port \u201cchallenges the status quo\u201d, making efficient use of land area, reducing environmental impact and pushing regional standards to a \u201cnew level\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Phase 1A will have a capacity of 2m teu, with an initial capacity of 1.1m teu on commercial opening in the fourth quarter of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to invent the wheel again, so Khalifa is based on a proven technology and performance,\u201d added Joost Achterkamp, project manager for Abu Dhabi Ports Company. \u201cWe have project challenges; the schedule is very tight. The first ASC will be on site 10 months after the contract is awarded and delivery of all the equipment and TOC will be 19 months after contract award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The whole terminal is built offshore to protect the coral reef, and there is the possibility to switch to full automation if desired. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first semi-automated terminal in the Middle East and an obvious rival to the expanding Jebel Ali, Abu Dhabi\u2019s Khalifa port is already making its presence felt well before its 2012 opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8334,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions\/8334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}