REPORT – Race for gigantism, technological leap… The city-state intends to keep its world leadership against Shanghai.
Singapore
One by one, the gigantic concrete caissons of 15,000 tons plunged into the equatorial waters of the Strait of Malacca. Together, these blocks of ten floors each form an 8.6 km long sea wall in the far west of Singapore. This artificial rampart protects the pharaonic new port of Tuas, a project costing 20 billion dollars, which aims to maintain the maritime leadership of the Asian hub. “Tuas will be a new engine of growth and will strengthen our status as an international maritime centerdeclared Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who came to inaugurate the 1er September the first installment of the site. The first container ships have docked at the new terminal, which will have 66 quays over 26 km in length, the equivalent of 3,300 football pitches, when it is completed by 2040.
These works of Hercules will almost double the capacity of the world’s leading transhipment port, which already handles a thousand ships a day, at 65 million TEU boxes…
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