The benefit of DUKC® systems fall into three categories:

Safety
DUKC® systems ensure UKC safety margins are maintained under all conditions. The DUKC® has assisted over 40,000 vessel movements over 15 years without a single incident.
 
Economic
DUKC® systems have provided economic benefits to ports and port users that have amounted to nearly AU$10bn since 1993, when OMC first installed its world-leading DUKC system in Queensland's Hay Point.

Some of these economic benefits include:

•  greater vessel throughput;
•  more efficient berth utilisation;
•  reduced demurrage; and
•  increased average drafts.

These benefits are obtained at a fraction of the dredging cost required to yield equivalent increases in productivity. Table 1 below summarises the economic benefits for three of the earliest implementations of DUKC.

Environmental
The economic benefits of DUKC® systems can offset the requirement for capital and maintenance dredging, thus reducing the environmental impact of the port.