Qatar ports experienced increase container traffic in January 2019. As data from Mwani Qatar show, the ports handled 110.394 TEU containers, compared to 103.996 TEU containers in January 2018. The ports also accommodated 334 vessels.
Specifically, the port handled 30.693 tonnes of building materials in comparison to 22.641 tonnes of aggregates in January 2018.
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Moreover, the ports received 46.764 tonnes of general cargo, 5.749 vehicles and 71.896 heads of livestock.
Hamad Port, the largest port in the Middle East, handled 109.349 TEU containers and 5.534 vehicles in January.
The ports achieved highest annual performance in containers, vessels and livestock segments in 2018. The ports received 4.781 vessels and handled 1.34 million TEU containers in 2018.
They also:
- handled 1.4 million tonnes of general cargo;
- handled 71,173 vehicles;
- 324,248 tonnes of building materials.
- 957,487 heads of livestock in 2018.
Finally, Mwani Qatar manages Hamad Port, Doha Port and Ruwais Port in the country.