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Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and Abu Dhabi Ports have launched a facility that will reduce trucking of EGA’s aluminium within the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD) by over 290,000 kilometres per year, reducing costs and environmental emissions.
The new container freight station will be used to load metal into containers for transfer onto ships for export. It has been purpose-built by Abu Dhabi Ports close to EGA’s Al Taweelah site to reduce the trucking distance for each consignment by approximately 17kilometres.
Last year EGA shipped some 600,000 tonnes of aluminium from Khalifa Port, requiring over 17,000 truck movements from EGA’s site to the quayside.
Total emissions savings from shortening the journey to waiting ships are expected to be over 2,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, which is similar to removing some 450 cars from the UAE’s roads.