Dubai's ports ranked 13th among the world's top 30 ports last year, with a record of handling 4.19 million TEUs in 2002, up by 20 per cent from the previous year's 3.5 million TEUs, according to Ports C1 Yearbook.
The outlook for Dubai ports' growth this year is that it will be much higher, due to prospects of heavy traffic to Iraq because of the upcoming reconstruction of the battered country, officials predicted at a conference, 'Shipping - Meeting the Challenge', organised by the UAE branch of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers in Dubai
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