Borouge to use Khalifa Port services

Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) will provide port services to Borouge, provider of plastics solutions, at the planned Khalifa Port.

According to a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the companies, ADPC will ensure that sufficient land, storage facilities, infrastructure and other services are made available to accommodate Borouge's products during the design, development and subsequent operation of Khalifa Port.

This will also ensure the seamless transition of Borouge's current port operations at Mina Zayed to Khalifa Port.

Presently, Borouge utilises Mina Zayed for a throughput capacity of 600,000 tonnes of poly-ethylene per year. Once the Borouge 2 expansion project is complete, it will require port services to increase its throughput capacity to approximately 2.1 million tonnes of polyolefin per year by 2010.

This will lead to an ultimate throughput of 4.5 million tonnes by 2014 upon completion of Borouge 3.

Under the agreement, ADPC will ensure that Mina Zayed has the capacity to handle Borouge's current and future production levels until the full operation of Khalifa Port.

Construction of Borouge 2 began in late 2007 and consists of an ethane cracker of 1.5 million tonnes per year, the world's largest olefins conversion unit of 752,000 tonnes per year, two Borstar poly-propylene plants and a new Borstar Enhanced poly-ethylene plant.