84 Dammam Throughput: 1,247,039teu (+14.7%)

摘要

Dammam experienced another year of double-digit growth in its box traffic in 2008, with throughput soaring above 1.2m teu. However, cargo volumes are still well within the port's theoretical handling capacity.rnNevertheless, International Port Services, in which Hutchison Port Holdings is a shareholder, is keen to expand on the basis of the continuing increase in import traffic - the port is the main Middle East Gulf gateway for Riyadh - huge potential in chemical exports out of Saudi Arabia and the opportunities afforded it by handling upper Gulf transhipment cargo.