Print Email Facebook Twitter Masterplan for the Port of Fujairah Expansion Project Title Masterplan for the Port of Fujairah Expansion Project Author Roelevink, G.J. Contributor Ligteringen, H. (mentor) Soons, F.A.M. (mentor) Verhagen, H.J. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Date 2007-10-19 Abstract The Port of Fujairah is situated on the Eastern coast of the UAE, approximately 70 nautical miles south from the Straits of Hormuz. The export of aggregates is the main activity in the port, together with the bunker trade. Currently the port faces a capacity shortage. However the Port of Fujairah is not using their container loading facilities actively, Dubai Port that is current leasing the quay and cranes in the Port of Fujairah has expressed their desire to be able to unload bigger vessels and handle more containers. This is not possible with the current facilities. The local authorities of Fujairah are planning to expand the existing Port of Fujairah. The expansion should supply for the anticipated growth of the coming 25 years. The objective of this study is twofold. The first objective is to find a favorable layout for the Expansion of the Port of Fujairah in which the port can expand its activities for the coming 25 years. The second objective is to propose technical designs for the civil and marine works of the expansion project. In fact this study covers the masterplan process including analysis, generation of layout alternatives, evaluation and selection of these alternatives and preliminary engineering. The port expansion should be realized, preferably north of the existing port and south of the existing oil terminal. Three scenarios of growth in demand for throughput capacity have been composed, representing low, medium and strong growth. To determine the requirements for the new port a basic simulation model was developed. Based on the spatial constraints and the requirements according to the composed scenarios, a number of layout alternatives have been proposed. A monetary evaluation as well as a multi criteria analysis finally resulted in the selection of a limited number of most promising layouts. For the marine and civil parts of the project, the quay walls, coastal protection works, liquid bulk terminal and dredging, several principle technical designs where proposed. The cost estimations that where used for the monetary evaluation where based on these designs. The final conclusion is that realization of the port expansion north and partly south of the existing port is necessary to reach the throughput capacity as described by the highest growth scenario. The area south of the port was originally reserved for other developments. The available area, north of the existing port however does not provide enough space for a terminal that is capable of achieving the anticipated throughput. It is proposed to realize the container terminal south of the existing port and to handle other commodities at the preferred location, north of the existing port. Subject Fujairahmasterplanportexpansion To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7ee7c3d4-a2cb-48e5-8dca-e18661a2b38e Publisher TU Delft, Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Hydraulic Engineering Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2007 G.J. Roelevink Files PDF ceg_roelevink_2007.pdf 14.35 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7ee7c3d4-a2cb-48e5-8dca-e18661a2b38e/datastream/OBJ/view