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Terminal posts 20% increase in volumes

Gulftainer's Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) has shown an increase in volumes during the first half of 2008 of around 20 per cent compared with the same period in 2007 - and continues to achi-eve a level of operating performance which is the envy of other worldwide terminals.

  • Staff Report
  • Published: 00:02 July 7, 2008
  • Gulf News

Dubai: Gulftainer's Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) has shown an increase in volumes during the first half of 2008 of around 20 per cent compared with the same period in 2007 - and continues to achi-eve a level of operating performance which is the envy of other worldwide terminals.

"The pace of the change in the Gulf region, particularly in the UAE, is moving at startling speed and nowhere is this more apparent than in the Transport and Logistics industry.

By their very nature, those industries that make up the components of the supply chain - shipping, trucking and terminals for example - have to continually re-engineer, re-invest and improve their service and performance to cater to growing volumes and increasingly stringent customer demands," the company said in a statement.

Gulftainer have for some years been anticipating the Terminal enhancements at Khorfakkan that bigger - much bigger - container ships, greater throughputs and infrastructure under pressure in the UAE would require.

The emergence of strong and diversified maritime companies and operators is making the Middle East one of the most dynamic and vibrant international maritime centres in the world."

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