The Port of Fujairah has a strategic location being connected to all the emirates within 300 km (190 mi) and located on the only eastern seaboard of the United Arab Emirates.
Construction of the port started on 1978 as part of the economic development of Fujairah and container operations commenced in 1982. The port assumed full operation on 1983. Two oil terminals were also constructed on the port. The first oil terminal commenced operation in January 2006 while the second oil terminal commenced operation in June 2010.
The port has two bulk loaders for exports, the first loader is capable of loading 2,000 tons per hour while the second loader is capable of loading 4,000 tons per hour.
The port consists of two breakwater berths; a southern and a northern breakwater berth. The southern breakwater berth has 840 meters (2,760 ft) of general cargo berth and a draft of 15 m (49 ft). The southern breakwater berth is the common site for repairing vessels and has a travel lift facility for vessel maintenance and repair. The northern breakwater berth hosts two oil terminals.
The port is expanding its operational capacity to enable the handling of larger vessels and provide more services. The port is expected to install advanced cargo lifting equipment by 2021.
The port is connected to the Etihad Rail linking the industrial city of Ruwais in the western region of the UAE to the town of Ghuwaifat close to the Saudi border and then to Fujairah in the east. The rail in Fujairah is used to carry bulk containers and oil.
Why Fujairah?
Fujairah started out as an oil hub mainly for bunker fuel in the mid-90s and the activity has been growing ever since, to the extent that Fujairah is now the second-largest bunkering hub in the world after Singapore. The strategic location of the Port of Fujairah is certainly extremely advantageous to Fujairah Oil Terminal , as Fujairah being the only one of the seven Emirates of the UAE, to lie wholly outside the Persian Gulf, on the Indian Ocean side of the Strait of Hormuz. This unique location provides easy access to a corridor out of the Persian Gulf that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz in case of any geopolitical tension. Therefore, Fujairah grew very quickly from a humble bunkering location, into a world class hub for refined products trading and strategic Crude storage location. This is translated in the increased number of vessels and throughput served by our terminal and the port of Fujairah, especially over the last four years.
The increased competition in Fujairah Market over the past 8 years has turned the table around from a monopoly to a buyer’s market. This only meant that service, reliable infrastructure and experienced staff play a major role in keeping the terminal at a high utilization rate rather than just a brand name or price.
Contango in the Crude market is a small fraction of the market in Fujairah. Traders in the recent years focus more on sustainable business models, covering market shortages or strategic storage, making bulk and also serve niche markets…
OUR SERVICES GVB offers highly valued services including:
• Loading and discharging of barges, vessels for refined products and (partially laden) very large Crude carriers (VLCC’s) for Crude oil.
• Deep draft jetties (up to 25 meters) operated by the Fujairah Oil Terminal.
• Blending, storage and supply of Fuel oil bunkers for IMO 2020, Crude oil, and clean products.
• Inter terminal and inter tank transfers.
• High speed centrifugal and PD pumps, tank/pipeline stripping pumps.
• Pigging and stripping of product group dedicated lines to jetties.
• Heating and homogenizing of product in tanks.
• Additive injection.
• Tax free zone in the bonded.