According to the WeChat official account "China Electric Power Construction" of China State Power Investment Corporation on April 20th, recently, the largest dry dock in the Middle East - the 4th dry dock of the King Salman Port Project undertaken by China Electric Power Construction has successfully completed and been handed over. It will help Saudi Arabia achieve economic structural transformation and diversified development and open up new space for friendly cooperation between China and Saudi Arabia.
The King Salman Port Project was personally laid the foundation and named by King Salman, and it is an important part of Saudi Arabia's "Vision 2030" national reform plan. After completion, it will become the largest "super shipyard" in the world, mainly engaged in shipbuilding, drilling platform manufacturing, maintenance, repair and major repair including the inspection and manufacturing of super tankers.
The dry dock is the core project of the entire shipyard project, which is the workplace for the assembly, launching, and docking maintenance of various ships. It can move ships to land for maintenance or repair. The 4th dry dock is the largest dry dock in the Middle East. It is 550 meters long, 75 meters wide, and 13.8 meters deep, with a total of 126,000 cubic meters of concrete poured.
In order to ensure the construction quality and speed of the dry dock, the project team adopted many high-difficulty technologies and processes during the construction process: the surrounding area of the dry dock pit used the underground continuous anti-seepage wall technology constructed by the slot machine, and the wall body segment of the dry dock used the Austria Doka formwork 8.65-meter one-time pouring process.
The project team also adopted measures such as optimized design of concrete keel pile structures and overall platform concrete construction, achieving significant results in improving quality and efficiency. After the commissioning of the 4th dry dock, its length of 550 meters can accommodate two ships to be built simultaneously, with the maximum capacity to build 90,000-ton ultra-large oil tankers.
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