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DP World’s flagship Jebel Ali port is the world’s most productive, according to the latest port productivity report from the highly respected US-based Journal of Commerce (JOC).The rankings are based on the average moves of containers per hour in 2013 as reported by shipping lines themselves. Jebel Ali led the industry with an average of 138 moves per hour (MPH).
Importantly, given the move to ever larger ships, Jebel Ali also tops the list of ports handling ships with capacity of more than 8,000 teu. For such vessels productivity is at an impressive 163 MPH.
H.E. Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Chairman of DP World, said: “We have invested significantly in infrastructure, equipment, technology and training at Jebel Ali to ensure we can serve our customers efficiently and help them realize the benefits of scale the new, larger vessels bring. It is very pleasing to see that this effort is making a difference and we are very proud of our UAE Region team for achieving these excellent results.”
Last month, Jebel Ali welcomed the first scheduled vessel at its new Container Terminal 3, as it gears up to serve customers at the state-of-the-art facility, which takes total capacity of the port to 17 million teu. Once fully operational next year, the terminal will add a further 2 million teu capacity and will be able to accommodate ten mega vessels of 18,000 teu simultaneously.
In the first nine months of 2014, DP World’s terminals in the UAE handled 11.4 million teu, representing growth of 12.6% per cent year-on-year. A further new record was achieved as it handled 4 million teu in the third quarter of this year alone.
