
As in the previous three years, also in 2024 the volume of
container traffic handled by port terminals that make
DP World group network in Dubai marked a new
historical record having been equal to 88.3 million TEUs, with a
increase of +8.3% over 2023. New historical peaks in traffic are
recorded both by terminals in the Americas and in
Australia, which handled 13.0 million TEUs (+14.7%), both
from the terminals in Asia, the Pacific and the Indian subcontinent alone,
where the total was 43.4 million TEUs (+10.4%). In
traffic in the terminals in the
Europe, Africa and the Middle East stood at 31.9 million TEUs
(+3.4%), a volume that is only lower than the record of 33.1
million TEUs scored in 2021.
A new historical record was also set by the
traffic achieved in the fourth quarter of 2024 alone with almost
23.0 million TEUs handled and an increase of +11.7% on the same
period of the previous year. The new quarterly record is
achieved thanks to the new historical peaks marked in the three
global macro-regions in which the terminals of the
group, with those in the Americas and Australia having
handled more than 3.4 million TEUs (+20.4%), those in
Asia, the Pacific and the Indian subcontinent totaled 11.1
million TEUs (+11.9%) and terminals in Europe, Africa and the Middle East
East which recorded a traffic of 8.4 million TEUs
(+8,1%).