Stockpile

On the first island of Dubai Waterfront, there is big stockpile of stones. The stones are delivered by trucks, get stockpiled, and then moved onto the pontoons are into the splithopper barges.



The stones come from quarries all over the UAE (except Dubai, where all the stones has been used already on previous projects). The smaller stones (0-500 kg and 0.5-1 ton) are transported in bulk and offloaded by dumping. The bigger stones are offloaded one by one by an excavator with a grab. In Belgium, trucks might be limited to about 20 tons, here in Dubai, they load up to 80 ton of stones into a truck. Multiply this by a few hundred tucks every day and you can get an idea how much stones get delivered.