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30-662: It can accommodate over 120,000 people. It is located on Interchange 5 between Jebel Ali Port and the area which hosts Dubai Internet City , Dubai Media City , and the American University in Dubai . Dubai Marina was inspired by the Concord Pacific Place development along False Creek in Vancouver, BC , Canada. There have been many instances of marine wildlife (especially whales and sharks) entering

60-480: A fully functioning terminal. The new port will be on reclaimed land extending seaward from the existing port and situated to the west of the Jumeirah Palm Island complex. The current plan is expected to multiply the total capacity of Jebel Ali port by more than seven, making it the world's biggest container port, surpassing the ports of Shanghai and Singapore. On 9 April 2011 Port of Jebel Ali won

90-566: A major shopping and entertainment center, Dubai Marina Mall offers a wide variety of retail stores, restaurants, and leisure activities. Various operators offer yacht tours Emirates International School is close to Dubai Marina. On 27 April 2006, a protest broke out among workers in Al Ahmadiya Contracting that caused the blocking of the company's construction site at Dubai Marina, damaging eight cars and two buses, destroying office property and documents, and roughing up

120-472: A site engineer. The riot control wing of Dubai Police rushed to the scene to control the situation and the police succeeded in dispersing the agitating workers. In August 2015, various people (including police officers) were arrested after they were caught with prostitutes and illegal alcohol on a boat in Dubai Marina. Jebel Ali Port Port of Jebel Ali , also known as Mina Jebel Ali ,

150-604: A size of 134.68 square kilometres (52.00 sq mi), Jebel Ali is the world's largest man-made harbour and the biggest port in the Middle-East . The port of Jebel Ali has become the port most frequently visited by ships of the United States Navy outside the United States . Due to the depth of the harbour and size of the port facilities, a Nimitz -class aircraft carrier and several ships of

180-563: A speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour or higher. The E11 is part of this system, categorized as a primary road, with its numbering indicating a north-south orientation as per the guidelines detailed in the Abu Dhabi Department of Transport's document TR-538 from 2018. The Sheikh Zayed Road is home to most of Dubai's skyscrapers, including the Emirates Towers . The highway also connects other new developments such as

210-640: A total of almost 19 thousand square metres and 12 covered sheds covering with 90.5 square metres. In addition, Port Jebel Ali also consist of 960 thousand square metres of open storage. Port Jebel Ali is linked to Dubai's expressway system and to the Dubai International Airport Cargo Village. The Cargo Village facilities capable of handling cargoes, making four-hour transit from ship to aircraft possible. The DPA's commercial trucking service transport container and general cargo transport between Port Jebel Ali, Port Rashid, and

240-585: Is a deep port located in Jebel Ali , Dubai , United Arab Emirates . Jebel Ali is the world's ninth busiest port, the largest man-made harbour, and the biggest and by far the busiest port in the Middle-East. Port Jebel Ali was constructed in the late 1970s to supplement the facilities at Port Rashid . Jebel Ali port is located 35 km southwest of Dubai, in the Persian Gulf . The port is part of

270-522: Is occupied by the marina water surface, it also includes almost 8 km of landscaped public walkways. The marina is entirely man-made and has been developed by the real estate development firm Emaar Properties of the United Arab Emirates and designed by HOK Canada. There is a publicly accessible foreshore-way around the marina and some sections of public ocean way along the beach with views to Palm Jumeirah . Its largest development

300-782: Is the Jumeirah Beach Residence . In October 2013 Dubai Marina opened its first mosque, Masjid Al Rahim, which is situated at the southern end of the Marina; its second mosque, Mohammed Bin Ahmed Almulla Mosque, opened in December 2016. The first phase of Dubai Marina covers 25 acres (100,000 m), which includes six freehold apartment buildings called the Dubai Marina Towers . Phase I of Dubai Marina cost more than AED 1.2 billion. Three of

330-584: Is the main artery of the city. The highway runs parallel to the coastline from the Trade Centre Roundabout to the border with the emirate of Abu Dhabi , 55 kilometres (34 mi) away in the area of Jebel Ali . The road was formerly known as Defence Road . Between 1993 and 1998, 30 kilometres (19 mi) of the road was expanded. Along with this improvement came a change in the name. Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum ,

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360-404: Is the master plan of the port. The project comprises 15 stages, which will be completed over the decade. Stage one was completed in 2007, which has increased the storage and handling capacity by 2.2 million TEUs and a Quay length of 1,200 m. The entire project includes 2.4 km of new berths, the container yard behind the berths and the supporting infrastructure and buildings necessary for

390-525: The Concorde Tower . As of 2016, luxury penthouses in the buildings sold for in excess of 10 million Dirham . In 2018, five million tonnes of rock was added to create a breakwater for Marina Quays. Dubai Marina Mall is a shopping mall located in the center of Dubai Marina and is one of the main shopping malls in Dubai. It features 140 retail outlets, spread over 390,000 sq ft (36,000 m) of gross leasable space. Opened in December 2008,

420-916: The Maritime Silk Road that runs from the Chinese coast to the south via the southern tip of India to Mombasa , from there through the Red Sea via the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, there to the Upper Adriatic region to the northern Italian hub of Trieste with its rail connections to Central Europe , Eastern Europe and the North Sea . Jebel Ali Port, credited to the efforts of Rashid bin Saeed Al-Maktoum ,

450-655: The Palm Jumeirah and Dubai Marina . The road has most of the Red Line of Dubai Metro running alongside it. In Dubai itself much of the highway has seven to eight lanes in each direction. In recent years, the government built a canal, the Dubai Water Canal ; as part of the project, a section of the road was removed and a bridge was constructed. On 12 March 2008, approximately 200 vehicles smashed into each other before going up in flames. According to

480-601: The Palm Monorail at the entrance of the Palm from Sufouh Road. After completion in 2014, it serves the residences of Dubai Marina and Jumeirah Beach Residence. A zipline advertised as the "longest urban zipline" was installed here, which links Dubai Marina with the Dubai Marina Mall . Run beside the shoreline, the pedestrian-friendly Dubai Marina Walk offers amazing views of the marina and city skyline. As

510-1308: The Al Batha border crossing at the Saudi Arabia–UAE border in al-Silah in the al-Dhafra region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and ends at the Oman–UAE border crossing of al-Darah in al-Jeer , Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah , running roughly parallel to UAE's coastline along the Persian Gulf . The road forms the main artery in some emirates' main cities, where it assumes various alternate names — Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Road and Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Road in Abu Dhabi , Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai , Al Ittihad Road in Sharjah Emirate and Ajman Emirate , and Sheikh Muhammad bin Salem Road in Ras al-Khaimah . The Dubai-Abu Dhabi Highway of E 11 links

540-586: The Golden Award for Best Seaport Overall from the Higher Committee for UAE Civil Seaports and Airports Security. In 2017, a big port crane started to collapse. It hit a vehicle and building as it collapsed. People were able to escape. Sheikh Zayed Road E 11 ( Arabic : شارع ﺇ ١١ ) is a highway in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The longest road in the Emirates, it stretches from

570-656: The Ruler of Dubai at the time, named the road after the then president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan . The E11 is designated as such because "E" stands for Emirates, and the number system was adopted in 1995 to represent nationally and internationally significant high-speed roads within the UAE. The E Route system defines these roads as having limited or controlled access and

600-422: The accompanying battle group can be accommodated pier-side. Due to the frequency of these port visits, semi-permanent liberty facilities (referred to by service personnel as "The Sandbox") have been erected adjacent to the carrier berth. Port Jebel Ali encompass over one million square metres of container yard. It also contains space for medium- and long-term general cargo storage, including seven Dutch barns with

630-466: The east of the northern half of the Dubai Marina and the west of the northern portion of Jumeirah Lake Towers . Dubai Marina Station lies on a viaduct paralleling the eastern side of Sheikh Zayed Road. It is categorised as a type 2 elevated station, indicating that there is an elevated concourse between the street and platform level. Pedestrian access to the station is aided through walkways above Sheikh Zayed Road, connecting to developments on either side of

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660-415: The majority of the skyscrapers ranging between 250 metres (820 ft) to 300 metres (984 ft). This includes Cayan Tower , Ocean Heights , Marina Pinnacle , Sulafa Tower and Ciel Tower , which rises to 366 metres (1,201 ft) meters. The Walk at Jumeirah Beach Residence is a 1.7-kilometre (1.1 mi) strip at the ground and plaza level of the complex, it was developed by Dubai Properties, and

690-476: The mall is linked to the 5-star JW Marriott Hotel Marina. Sobha Realty (Arabic: شوبا العقارية) (formerly Dubai Marina) is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Dubai Metro in Dubai. It opened on 30 April 2010 as part of an extension to Ibn Battuta. Dubai Marina station is located near Interchange 5 of Sheikh Zayed Road , around 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Downtown Dubai. It lies to

720-505: The marina because of its proximity to the open sea. In order to create the man-made marina , the developers brought the waters of the Persian Gulf into the site of the Dubai marina, creating a new waterfront. There is a large central waterway excavated from the desert and running the length of the 3 km site. More than 12% of the total land area on the site has been given over to this central public space. Although much of this area

750-520: The rest of UAE every day. Jebel Ali port is one of DP World's flagship facilities and have been ranked as 9th in Top Container Port Worldwide having handled 7.62 million TEUs in 2005, which represents a 19% increase in throughput, over 2004. Jebel Ali Port was ranked 7th in the world's largest ports in 2007. Jebel Ali port is managed by state-owned Dubai Ports World . The expansion of Jebel Ali port commenced in 2001, which

780-764: The road. In September 2014, Damac Properties acquired the naming rights for the Dubai Marina Station, which resulted in it being renamed the Damac Station. Al Sufouh Tramway is a tramway that operates in Al Sufouh, Dubai Marina. It runs 14.5 kilometres (9.0 mi) along Al Sufouh Road from Dubai Marina to the Burj Al Arab and the Mall of the Emirates . It interchanges with two stations of Dubai Metro's Red Line . The Sufouh Tram also connects with

810-404: The towers are named after precious stones: Al Mass, Fairooz, and Murjan; the other three are named after Arabic scents: Mesk, Anbar, and Al Yass. The scheme was designed by HOK and the contractors were Al-Futtaim Carillion and Nasah Multiplex . The Phase II of Dubai Marina will consist of high rise buildings, which are mainly clustered into a block, known as "Tallest Block in the world" with

840-619: The two largest cities of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The project was first proposed in 1968 by the Sheikhs of Abu Dhabi and Dubai to Sheikh Zayed . In 1971, the project was approved and construction began. The highway was completed in 1980. The highway starts near Al Maqta' Bridge in Abu Dhabi and becomes Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai. In Dubai, E 11 is known as " Sheikh Zayed Road " (in Arabic : شارع الشيخ زايد). This road

870-642: Was completed by 2007 and opened officially in August 2008. It has become a tourist attraction. Al Sahab is a residential high-rise development that consists of two towers; the complex is on the waterfront and directly overlooks the largest bay of water at Dubai Marina. The buildings are in the northern end of the marina across from the Al Majara Towers near the Marina Quays. Marina Quays is a complex designed by Arif & Bintoak, also responsible for

900-407: Was constructed in the late 1970s and opened in 1979 to supplement the facilities at Port Rashid . It was inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II on 26 February 1979. The village of Jebel Ali was constructed for port workers, and it has a population of 300 people. Covering over 134 square kilometres (52 sq mi). It is home to over 5,000 companies from 120 countries of the world. With 67 berths and

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