Emirates Aluminium (Emal) has received its first General Electric equipment at the Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) berthing dock in Taweelah, Abu Dhabi.

The delivery of two 75-tonne combustion turbine exhaust gas diverters is the next step to the smelter achieving hot metal in 2010 and when the power plant is complete, it will be one of the largest, single-site combined-cycle power plants in the world.
Over the next few months, the dock – which was specially constructed for offloading of heavy and oversized equipment without the use of cranes –  will receive more deliveries, including 280-tonne combustion turbines and 220-tonne generators, as well as steam turbine equipment.
The diverters were manufactured in Bahrain and are used to direct the flow of exhaust gases from the combustion turbines.
On completion of the second phase, Emal will become the world's fifth largest aluminium producer with output of 1.4 million tonnes of aluminium.