The Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone at Taweelah in Abu Dhabi was initiated by the Abu Dhabi government and is supervised as well as owned by the Abu Dhabi Ports Company. Port and Industrial Zone will be engineered and constructed separately. The total investment for the entire project will sum up to 5.5 billion AED (1.1 billion €), which was awarded to a consortium including Archirodon Construction Co. S. A. amongst others, and the project will to be completed in 2028. This article refers to the starting phase of this challenging project, the first phase of the Khalifa Port which started in 2007 and will be finalized in 2010.