Dubai’s DP World completes high bay store system at Jebel Ali Port

Dubai’s DP World has completed the assembly of what it says is the world’s first container High Bay Store system at Jebel Ali Port.

BoxBay is a joint venture with German industrial engineering specialist SMS group GmbH, according to a statement on the Dubai Media Office website on Jul 2.

Real life test operations are due to start before September, said the statement.

The patented High Bay Store is an automated container handling system that stacks containers up to eleven stories high.

“It delivers more than three times the capacity of a conventional yard with enhanced performance, so the footprint of terminals can be reduced by up to 70%, and enables any container to be accessed individually without moving any other,” according to the statement.

Containers are traditionally stacked on top of each other, which means many containers have to be moved to access containers lower down in the stacks.

The system proof of concept provides 792 container slots.

“A full industrial HBS yard behind the two under construction berths of Jebel Ali Terminal 4 would be able to handle more than three million containers per year,” said the media statement.

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