Firm to build new container depot in Abu Dhabi

13 December 2018
Planned inland container deport at Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi will have the capacity to handle 1,500 containers a day

Dubai-based Trustworthy.ae Group has said it will invest AED365m ($100m) over the  next five years to develop an inland container depot (ICD), a third-party container freight station (CSF) and other port-related services in Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad).

Construction on the container freight station and inland container depot will commence in January 2019. Both facilities are expected to become operational by June 2019, the firm said in a statement.

The facilities will be developed on a 1.4 million square feet land plot. The inland container depot will have the capacity to handle 1,500 containers a day, while the container freight station will have a storage capacity of 22,500 twenty-foot equivalent units.

Future investments will entail the development of engineering services, third-party logistics, marine services, retail and hospitality.

Hayleys Advantis, the transport and logistics arm of Sri Lanka’s Hayleys Group, will operate the facility.

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