KCT claims bigger share of UAE volumes

Volumes at the terminal were already much higher in the first half of the year as a result of lines increasingly choosing to route cargo through the KCT gateway to the UAE, and have been further boosted as congestion and slow working have affected other ports in the region.

Gulftainer director and general manager Peter Richards commented, “We have been pointing out for years that KCT was geographically ideally placed to save lines time and money, especially as the fast performance of the terminal would ensure that large, expensive container ships would not spend much time berthing and working.

“Containers for the UAE market have continued to move smoothly on our ‘minibridge’ to the Sharjah Inland Container Depot (SICD), allowing fast and early distribution to the UAE market – when most other gateways have been increasingly gridlocked with traffic.”