DP World looks to replace yard stacking with high bay storage in Jebel Ali

DP World has formed a joint venture with industrial engineering specialists SMS Group to implement a high bay container storage system at Jebel Ali Terminal 4 before Dubai Expo 2020, which begins in October that year.

Instead of stacking containers directly on top of each other, which has been global standard practice for decades, the system places each container in an individual rack compartment.

The idea was originally developed by SMS Group subsidiary Amova for round the clock handling of metal coils that weigh as much as 50 tonnes each in racks as high as 50 m. Amova is the first company to transfer this technology to the port industry.