Aqaba Container Terminal Throughput Volumes Up By 20%, Despite COVID-19 Circumstances

Aqaba Container Terminal’s (ACT) constant financial investment in port effectiveness, has actually led to document quantity raises this year. ACT, the recommended portal for the Levant area as well as past, accomplished a throughput of 89,225 TEU in August, a 20% boost on the very same duration in 2014. This is the highest possible complete throughput dealt with in the last 5 years.
Operational effectiveness goes to the core of ACT’s organization version as well as in spite of dealing with the mitigating situations of the COVID-19 Pandemic, ACT proceeded its higher fad of enhanced effectiveness. Over the training course of 2020 alone ACT has actually seen a 6% boost in efficiency with a complete throughput of 560,540 TEU, contrasted to 527,174 TEU in 2014, as well as an overall of 210,667 vehicles gated out, contrasted to 202,647 in 2019.

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International Best Practice
Speaking of these newest success, ACT Chief Executive Officer, Steven Yoogalingam mentioned, “We are committed to Jordan and bolstering its economy by continually enhancing our capabilities, adapting the best international practices and investing across all port operations. We aim to ensure ACT maintains its status as the pivotal gateway to Jordan and beyond while serving our national economy with the utmost dedication to international standards.”
Though the Terminal encountered various obstacles as a result of the worldwide pandemic, ACT has actually continued to be committed to its duty as the key portal to the Levant as well as past as well as made sure the area’s accessibility to vital materials while focusing on customer assistance as well as fulfillment. To that finish, ACT expanded its complete container storage space free-time moratorium from 6 to 2 week, providing customers adequate time to remove the containers.
The Terminal likewise functioned to secure basic health and wellness with the application of automated information handling, which made sure that no documentation was traded in between clients as well as staff members.
Further financial investment in devices
In line with its commitment to continuously establish the Terminal, and also as component of its critical financial investment strategy to change obsolete or worn-out devices with advanced equipment, the Terminal has actually bought 2 brand-new reach stackers as well as 2 vacant trainers from among the globe’s most respectable port devices suppliers, with tailored specs for the incurable.
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