A facility to manufacture a range of floating structures has been set up in Dubai at the Jebel Ali Free Zone.

Clement Systems Gulf, a joint venture between Clement Yacht Harbour Systems of Germany and the UAE-based DPFC Istithmar, has installed facilities to manufacture floating products including concrete pontoons, breakwater pontoons, turnkey marinas, platforms, restaurants and streets.
“Our technology comes from our parent company Clement Yacht Harbour Systems Germany and all our products are approved by Lloyd’s Register,” said Hans A Clement, who oversees production at the free zone factory. 
Last July it won a contract from Nakheel to build a floating street between the breakwater and the frond to manage traffic on Palm Island.
Clement said the company used specially designed German-built steel moulds to guarantee high quality. They determined what form the pontoons would take and could be changed to produce different types of pontoons in different lengths, widths and heights.
He said the company would purchase a travel lift to transport its pontoons easily from place to place.”
“At the moment we can build five pontoons per day and we are planning in the near future to increase that to 10 a day. We have installed on our plot a total of 16 concrete platforms on which the pontoons are built and we switch from one platform to the other.”
On the Nakheel project, he said a floating concrete road would be built between the breakwater and the frond of Palm Island.
“This floating road is 500-m long and 20-m wide and can handle a two-lane or one-lane traffic. The calculations are based on the fact that the road should have a capacity of 100 tonnes on 40 m. Due to our special technology for building floating concrete pontoons, the road will be a really stable unit not comparable to any steel floating,” Clement explained.
“Also to guarantee long durability, we choose only high-quality concrete which has several components that endure high saltwater resistance.”
Clement said the company was in negotiations with parties in the UAE and other Gulf states to provide customer turnkey marinas in which it would design the marinas as well as construct and install them.
“Another very interesting aspect is our floating breakwater pontoons developed over the last 15 years to achieve the maximum. These breakwaters could be used to protect marinas or berth stations in waves of up to 1.5 m. 
“Clement Systems Gulf can build breakwaters of up to 2.1 m height, 20 m length and 5 m width with a weight of approximately 75 tonnes each.”
Clement said great interest had been generated in the company’s floating platforms in the Middle East where demand would be greatest for Clement Systems products in the next few years. He estimated that in the three months to the end of October, Clement Systems Gulf would build 2,500 pontoons.
Last year for the International Garden Exhibition Germany, Clement Yacht Harbour Systems built a 4,200sq m platform. Among other recent international projects were a 1,000-berth marina and a 350-m long floating breakwater in France.