In the second quarter of this year, the port terminals that are part of the DP World group network in Dubai have handled a record container traffic of 21.8 million TEU, with an increase of +7.5% over the same period in 2023. The a new quarterly historical peak was generated by volumes records handled in ports in the Americas and Australia and in those of Asia which were equal to 3.2 million TEUs (+14.7%) and 10.9 million TEUs (+10.2%). Traffic handled in container terminals in Europe, Africa and the Middle East amounted to 7.8 million TEUs (+1.4%), of which 3.7 million of TEUs handled in the United Arab Emirates (+4.3%).

A record volume of traffic was also recorded in the first half of 2024 when 42.6 million TEUs, up +6.8% on the first half of 2014 last year. Also in the first six months of 2024, the terminals of The Americas and Australia and Asia set new records with 6.3 million TEUs (+13.2%) and 21.2 million TEUs (+10.2%). In Europe, Africa and the Middle East, 15.1 million TEUs were handled (+0.2%), of which over 7.3 million TEUs handled in the Emirates United Arab Emirates (+3.9%).

In the first half of this year, the terminal group The Middle East also set its own new record in terms of value of revenues which amounted to 9.3 billion dollars (+3.3%). Operating profit and net profit declined respectively by -9.8% and -40.4%, falling to 1.5 billion and 537.9 million dollars.