Dubai: Gulftainer, the privately owned port terminal operator headquartered in Sharjah, saw an 8 per cent increase in container growth in 2014, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
A total of 6.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a shipping container measurement, passed through Gulftainer’s portfolio last year, which includes ports from Saudi Arabia to Brazil.
In the UAE, its terminals handled 3.8 million TEUs last year with Sharjah Container Terminal surpassing 400,000 TEUs for the first time. Growth figures for the UAE were not stated