Construction

Physical characteristics

Facts and figures

General

Total area ca 2,000 hectares
Area for industrial sites 1.000 hectares
Space needed for infrastructure 190 hectares
Space needed for sea defences (above sea level) 165 hectares
Space needed for fairways and docks 490 hectares

Division of area

Container storage and througput 630 hectares
Chemicals 190 hectares
Distribution 180 hectares
Total capacity container througput 17 million TEU* annually

Roads (2 x 2-lane) 13 kilometres
Rail (double, rail service centre) 14 kilometres
Quay walls 13 kilometres

Materials required

Sand, 1st phase construction (2013) 240 million m³
Maximum total quantity sand required (2033) 365 million m³

Lenght of sea defences

Soft sea defence 8,4 kilometres
Hard sea defence 2.4 kilometres
Transition between soft and hard sea defence 1.4 kilometres

Access for shipping

Lenght of navigation channel 10 nautical miles
Draught up to 20 meter
Width of port entrance 600 meter
Diameter turning basin for ships 700 meter

* TEU stands for Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit, and is the unit of measurement for containers