The interconnectivity of the whole world’s major ports is broad scale. Many public and private sector capital investment has backed programs, design, and building of global logistics infrastructure of these hubs over the past few years. As international trade continues to boom with high-demand commodities and customer responsiveness, design technologies of new ports is shape shifting to fulfill the demand.

Transportation sector specialists, financial investor homes for example JP Morgan, and important firms like US Contractor Bechtel, are moving forward – using reclamation technology within the development of man-made island ports with at least 3 million TEU (twenty foot equivalent unit) annual container capacity and managing boat capacity of around 400,000 dwt (dead weight tonnage).

Abu Dhabi Khalifa Port Container Terminal
The official launch of The Abu Dhabi Khalifa port on December 12, 2012 at 1200 hours, marking the 5-year end of Bechtel’s land reclamation project, was successful; inaugurated by its own namesake, President HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan along with royalty, diplomats, and other business leaders. All container traffic of Abu Dhabi’s Mina Zayed port was routed, a couple of months before schedule, for the Khalifa terminal.

The port’s Phase One container capacity is 2.5 million TEUs. This year aDPC (Abu Dhabi Ports Company) projected an 800, 000 capacity for the Khalifa port. The port is located more than 4 kilometers off-shore to shield the region’s Ras Ghanada coral reef, that is close to the onshore port areas. Khalifa port is presently in 5 period improvement and expected to reach 15 million TEU annual container capacity and 35 million tons of general cargo by 2030.

Western Visionaries’ Deepwater Offshore Port Goals in West Africa
The vast resource of iron-ore in West Africa has daring thinkers JP Morgan bank and Bechtel is looking to duplicate the success of Khalifa port with a master layout plan of a deep-water manmade island port off the coast of West Africa. Some 6 billion tones of high grade iron-ore deposits in the Mount Nimba area, stretching in the Ivory Coast of Liberia, is the driving factor of Bechtel’s man-made island port suggestion to mining companies. Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) quoted Magnus Ericson of Raw Materials Team, earlier this year: “West Africa is the emerging hot-spots for iron ore mining. Greenfield mining jobs in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Congo and other countries are well on path to create a brand new world-wide iron ore center.”