Project Highlights

 

Port Master Planning

GMAPS has recently port master concept planning projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and is currently port master planning a port based industrial city with a consortium partner in an island site in neighboring Brunei. This island site is known as Pulau Muara Besar:

Pulau Muara Besar (PMB)

Pulau Muara Besar (PMB) is an island strategically located in Brunei Bay at the mouth of the Brunei River. Located next to Muara municipality, it is an ideal location site is for a deep sea container port. GMAPS and its consortium partner Surbana International have been appointed by The Brunei Economic Development Board as master planner and consultancy services provided for the development of Pulau Muara Besar into a port based trading and industrial area.

Currently the consortium is performing Phase 1 of the project, which is the investigation stage. Under phase 2 the detailed master planning of the Port and the agreed supporting services and industries will be performed.

A bridge will be built to link the island to the mainland.

The port will be developed will be in phases, with the first phase creating a straight line quay of 660m for container ships berths.

This first phase of development will include equipping the port with the following facilities:

• New post-panamax cranes
  
• Container yard with 156 reefer points (42,681 m2)
  
• Total area of 34.3 hectares including container yard
  
• Warehousing and free zone option

The King Abdullah Economic City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

A concept master plan for a 10 million TEUs capacity container facility with a 13 sq.km backup land was developed. Stage 1 of the port design included 2 container berths, a bulk handling berth, 2 general cargo berths, a RORO facility plus breakwater which also served as an oil discharge wharf.

ASEER Port and Refinery, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

A site on the Red Sea, south of Gizan was chosen by our client for developing a maritime complex which included 6km of container wharf, a petro-chemical wharf and a ship repair facility on an opposite off-shore island. GMAPS conceived and designed the concept master-plans for their eventual presentation to the King.

Port Master Planning, Dammam

The project near Dammam is located at a site about 30km to the south of the Qatari Port of Mesaieed in the Arabian Gulf. To be known as the Al-Ahsa Economic City (ALEC), the port will be designed to meet the capacity requirements based on the economic studies by the business planning consultants up to the year 2030 and beyond.

ALEC port in this master plan has 2 sectors which are (i) the commercial port and (ii) the industrial port. The commercial port is designed on 6km of foreshore and backed up by 1km of land inshore. The commercial port will have both container terminals as well as multi-purpose terminals. The water depth at the quay will be dredged to -13.5 m. A Value Adding Logistics Park will be located next to the cargo terminals. The project also involves dredging and reclamation works. The industrial port facilities are ship-cargo handling facilities for the industrial plants. The industrial terminals will be dedicated to serving their own industrial plants.

Project Management

Ongoing project management at the reclamation site at the sea off Tuas Jurong, Singapore. Reclamation Operations.