Al Khaleej Sugar, a leading sugar refinery in the Arab region, celebrated the arrival of MV UBC Ottawa, the world’s largest sugar carrying vessel to call at DP World’s flagship Jebel Ali Port.  

Arriving from Sao Paolo port in Brazil, about 106,000 tonnes of sugar was discharged in Dubai, UAE, last year, said a statement.

Sailing since 2011, the 260 meters length vessel has a load capacity of 118,625 tonnes, it said.

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, DP World chairman, said: “This historic call is another achievement for Dubai, reinforcing its gateway position for the Middle East and wider region.

“DP World is working closely with Al Khaleej Sugar to safely offload the raw sugar at their berth, illustrating our ability to handle all types of cargo, including food staples such as rice, flour and other perishable goods.”

“Jebel Ali serves a wide variety of customers and this event comes on the heels of the arrival of the biggest ever bulk carrier to visit the port last month, where we handled 79,000 tonnes of reinforcing steel. These achievements illustrate that we are ready to meet future demands for containerised or non-containerised cargo, with our new, state-of-the-art Container Terminal 3 at Jebel Ali ready to serve customers,” said Sulayem.

Jamal Al Ghurair, managing director of Al Khaleej Sugar, said: “We are proud to host the biggest vessel in the world at the Al Khaleej Sugar berth in Dubai. In the last few years we have seen a number of improvements and additions to our refinery as we installed new equipment that helped increase production rates and placed us as one of the leading sugar refineries in the world.” - TradeArabia News Service