Dubai Drydocks

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Dubai Drydocks is a dry docks facility adjacent to Port Rashid in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The idea for Dubai Drydocks began in 1971. After feasibility studies and construction, the facility opened in 1983.[1] It is the only large dry docks facility in the Persian Gulf.[2][3] Since it opened, the yard has repaired over 6000 vessels with a combined tonnage of 500 million tons.[4] The Dubai Drydocks have been building new ships since 1994 and have since completed over 70 projects.[5] The dry dock also contains the Middle East's largest floating crane.[6][7] Dubai Drydocks is adjacent to Dubai Maritime City and Port Rashid (Mina Rashid).

Dubai Drydocks
MS Queen Elizabeth 2
A ship in Dubai Drydocks

There was a massive accident in 2002. 29 workers died after the water started to enter the drydocks when the locks somehow failed.[8]

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