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Port · United Arab Emirates
Jebel Ali is the Gulf’s container mega-hub, and since mid-2025 its J-Charlie anchorage takes bunkers too. Post the requirement here — provisions, bonded stores, fresh water, waste, agency — and verified suppliers answer with sealed bids.
25°01′N · 55°04′E · UN/LOCODE AEJEA
Port guide
Reviewed 2026-08-20 · sources below — operational details change; verify before you sail on them
Jebel Ali is DP World’s flagship: 15.5 million TEU in 2024 — its best year since 2015 — plus 5.4 million tonnes of breakbulk, across four container terminals, 100+ berths and 25 km of quay (as of DP World’s February 2025 results).[1]
—Lloyd’s List ranked it 9th in the Top 100 Container Ports 2025 — the Gulf’s only top-ten port.[2]
—The integrated JAFZA free zone drives the trade: 11,000+ companies and $190bn of trade in the year to its 40th anniversary (as of May 2025).[3]
—Published maxima by trade: container drafts to 17.0 m; breakbulk/bulk 14.5 m; tankers to 120,000 dwt at 14.0 m; the port lies 40 km south-west of Dubai city.[8]
Effective 1 June 2025, bunker supply is permitted at the J-Charlie anchorage — including for vessels with no operational call at Jebel Ali. Each operation needs Harbour Master approval (safety, location, vessel size and type, duration, fuel type, weather) under the port’s rules and tariff.
What a vessel arranges at Jebel Ali
Read off the live directory · distances are great-circle, not sailing routes
1 verified ship chandler has activated ship supply at Jebel Ali. Post the requirement — provisions, bonded stores and deck, engine and cabin stores, each line an IMPA-coded catalogue item or a specified manual item with its unit — with the vessel's ETA and payment terms, and it prices it sealed. You compare the bid line by line; the supplier never sees the vessel's name until you award.
Supplier coverage at this port
2 verified suppliers activated · 2 of 4 port lines covered
Nearest ports
Great-circle distance from Jebel Ali (AEJEA) through the UN/LOCODE directory — straight-line, not a sailing route.
—Bookable anchorage services predate that: bunkering, STS, repairs and crew changes at the designated anchorages (the short-term anchorage is J-Bravo).[6]
—Jebel Ali was named one of eight prime global crew-change hubs by the 2020 shipowner coalition (alongside Singapore, Rotterdam, Fujairah and others).[7]
—Agency and the port’s notice regime through your agent; anchorage operations run on Harbour Master approval (see above).[4]
—Bunkers by barge or road tanker; medical facilities are available.[8]
—Provisions, bonded stores and fresh water: post a requirement and chandlers activated at Jebel Ali answer with sealed bids — the vessel’s name stays hidden until award. Suppliers: activate Jebel Ali and compete on the number, not the rolodex.
Sources
No bunker or water supplier has activated Jebel Ali yet. The nearest port where a bunker or water supplier is activated is Port Said (EGPSD, EG), 2,332 km away by great circle. A requirement posted here — bunkers by grade and fresh water, in tonnes or cubic metres, normalised so the offers compare — still counts: it alerts the sourcing desk, which recruits for Jebel Ali in the order requirements arrive, and the first bunker or water supplier to activate the port takes its requests uncontested.
No waste operator has activated Jebel Ali yet. The nearest port where a waste operator is activated is Dumyat (Damietta) (EGDAM, EG), 2,381 km away by great circle. A requirement posted here — MARPOL waste landing by category and volume, priced and documented against the call — still counts: it alerts the sourcing desk, which recruits for Jebel Ali in the order requirements arrive, and the first waste operator to activate the port takes its requests uncontested.
1 verified port agent has activated port agency at Jebel Ali. Post the requirement — the agency scope for the call — clearance, husbandry, crew transport, cash to master — quoted on the same defined job — with the vessel's ETA and payment terms, and it prices it sealed. You compare the bid line by line; the supplier never sees the vessel's name until you award.
