King Abdullah Port volumes jump 14% in first half 2017

The Red Sea port handled 398 vessels and 821,694 TEUs during the first half of the year, both increases of 14 percent from the corresponding 2016 period, according to recent port data.    King Abdullah Port, located in Saudi Arabia along the Red Sea, handled 821,694 TEUs during the first half of 2017, up 14 percent from the corresponding 2016 period, the port said.
   During the first half of 2017, 398 vessels called King Abdullah Port, also up 14 percent year-over-year.
   “King Abdullah Port is built according to state-of-the-art specifications and is designed and executed to cope with the Kingdom’s commercial and economic growth in the coming decades,” said Eng. Abdullah Hameedadin, managing director of the Ports Development Company, owner and developer of King Abdullah Port.
   King Abdullah Port is called by 14 liner services that also call ports outside of Saudi Arabia, eight of which also sail to regions outside the Middle East, according to ocean carrier schedule and capacity database BlueWater Reporting’s Port Dashboard tool. The world’s two largest liner carriers, Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Co., deploy the majority of the vessels calling the port.