Aqaba Container Terminal scores elevated ranking among global container ports

Aqaba Container Terminal scores elevated ranking among global container ports

Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), has climbed in ranking among global container ports to achieve a position of 35 out of 370 ports listed for 2021 – a jump of six places vs. previous year. ACT is now the most efficient port in the Levant, by a considerable margin, and it comes as a direct result of the large investments made to enhance operational performance at the Aqaba terminal in recent years.

The results were published in a recent report, The Container Port Performance Index 2021 (CPPI), which was compiled by the World Bank Group together with S&P Global Market Intelligence. The CPPI rates the performance of shipping ports around the globe by comparing the amount of time container ships spent in port to complete workloads over the course of 2021.

ACT is Jordan’s only container port and essential to the Kingdom’s supply chain. More than that, it is an important regional transit hub which holds a strategic location linking more than 45 million consumers in Jordan, Iraq, Syria, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia to the world. As the ranking proves, it is outperforming competing ports in the Mediterranean on efficiency, becoming the preferred gateway to the Levant for major shipping lines,