São Paulo – The number of containers handled by Khalifa Port, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, increased 36% from January to October of this year over the same period of 2014. In these ten months, the port handled 1,204,993 of TEUs (Twenty feet equivalent unit). The data is from Abu Dhabi Terminals, manager of the port.
The traffic of vessels in the terminal also increased in the first ten months of this year. The increased reached 29% with 110,831 vessels. In the same period, the handling of general cargo was 20% more than in the first ten months of 2014.
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani