CHAINPORT MIDDLE EAST NETWORK
There are 2 CHAINPORT regions in Middle East: There are a large number of ports in the Middle East, many of them relatively new, and a massive amount of new building and development at ports and terminals all around the Arabian Peninsula. Some of these newer ports and terminals are designed to attract passing transhipment trade from the main Asia-Europe-Asia trade lane service loops, whereas others, whilst wishing to attract this type of cargo as well, are built around a strong logistics service base. Due to the scarcity of reliable and modern road and rail links to inland destinations in the area, most of the ports have a fairly tightly defined hinterland.
There are 2 CHAINPORT regions in Middle East: There are a large number of ports in the Middle East, many of them relatively new, and a massive amount of new building and development at ports and terminals all around the Arabian Peninsula. Some of these newer ports and terminals are designed to attract passing transhipment trade from the main Asia-Europe-Asia trade lane service loops, whereas others, whilst wishing to attract this type of cargo as well, are built around a strong logistics service base. Due to the scarcity of reliable and modern road and rail links to inland destinations in the area, most of the ports have a fairly tightly defined hinterland.
Red Sea
The Red Sea coasts host a few ports on both the Saudi and Egyptian sides of the Red Sea. Sokhna in Egypt has ambitions to act as a value add logistics centre for cargo bound for Southern Europe and North East Africa, but has yet to realise these ambitions. Jordan has the port of Aqaba which has acted as a gateway port for cargo bound to Jordan, Syria, the Lebanon, the Palestinian areas of Israel and Eastern Iraq, but this port has been hampered by congestion. Saudi Arabia has two ports on this coast of note, Yanbu and Jeddah. Of the two, Jeddah has made the greatest strides in developing logistics services and efficient container handling operations and acts as the Western gateway for the Saudi market and a major connecting port for services to/from East Africa.
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Also known as Red Sea Gateway Terminals and Jeddah Islamic Port, Jeddah is the main Western Gateway into the Saudi market and handles approximately 70% of all sea-bourn cargo for Saudi Arabia. It connects to the main East-West trade lane, North-South trade lane, Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean trade loops, regional trade loops to East Africa and the trade route to and from the Indian Sub Continent. According to the port’s website, it has demonstrated a commitment to quality and has been awarded 4 stars as evidence of that commitment (unsure as to who is awarding star ratings to ports).
Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf area has been an area of high activity in port development and terminal construction in recent years. Some ports have leveraged off the ready and cheap availability of bunker fuel oils, whilst others play off the relatively low levels of port development and the draft restrictions which dominate ports in India to attract and tranship cargo bound for India from the larger vessels.
Khalifa is promoted as the gateway to Abu Dhabi and is owned by the Abu Dhabi Port Company. It is a relatively new port and ‘legacy light’. There has been massive development at the port of Khalifa with very large areas of reclamation to create the port complex. It is the first semi-automated port in the region. Khalifa Port commenced operations in September 2012. Today, the port handles general cargo and all of Abu Dhabi’s container traffic. In its present development phase 1, the port has an annual capacity of 2.5 million TEUs and 12 million tons of general cargo. When all development phases are completed, Khalifa Port is expected to increase its capacity for container volumes to 15 million TEUs and 35 million tons of general cargo per year.