The port at Hamriyah is an important free zone and a centre for export and re-export to India and the Far East.
Sharjah Port’s Authority has an ongoing plan to expand and develop the port, and called in Halcrow to help with plans to increase the number of berths available in the deepwater harbour.
The client’s aim was to provide suitable berthing facilities for 70,000DWT post-panamax container vessels and 100,000DWT general cargo vessels. Halcrow did the concept design, preliminary design and budget preparation for the project, then moved on to detailed design, tender documents and contract supervision.
Our design solution involved demolishing an old oil handling pontoon berth in order to extend the existing general cargo berth to by 240m. This created the space for two new berths to be constructed for container vessels.
These new container berths have been designed to accommodate 80 tonne lifting capacity gantry cranes, which required constructing a 610m long, piled rear crane beam.
The new quays were built using mass concrete blockwork, and a limited blockwork paved area was constructed, with further storage yards and goods sheds to be developed at a later stage.