(MENAFN- The Peninsula) By Sachin Kumar | The Peninsula
DOHA: Hamad Port has received 120 commercial vessels in February.
The largest port in the region handled 55,862 tonnes of bulk cargo compared to 9,890 tonnes of bulk cargo in January, showing a whopping rise of 465 percent.
The Port handled 103,735 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) containers and 94,796 tonnes of break bulk cargo, according to Qterminals. A total of 4,845 vehicles and 50,000 cattle heads were handled by the port last month.
January was remarkable month for Hamad port as it received a total of 182 vessels during this month, which was the highest number of vessels handled in a month since the start of its operations.
The port had handled 103,996 TEUs containers, 136,511 tonnes break bulk cargo, 152,671 vehicles and 90,099 heads of cattle in January this year.
The ports in the country had shown a strong performance last year, which assumes importance as siege was announced by the blockading countries in June last year.
The ports, specially Hamad Port, have played a crucial role in ensuring the uninterrupted and smooth supply of goods for residents.
In 2017, the ports in Qatar handled 1.26 million tonnes of general cargo, 772,835 TEUs containers, 857,429 cattle heads and 578,654 tonnes of aggregates and 3,869 vessels.
The positive momentum in the country's maritime trade will get stronger in the ongoing year as Qatar has opened new trade routes and has diversified its source of supply.
Mwani Qatar in cooperation with partners had, in the second half of 2017, inaugurated a number of new direct shipping lines between Hamad Port and other ports in the region and beyond.
Hamad port is capable of handling 5,000 vessels per year and has a general cargo terminal that can handle 1.7 million tonnes of general goods per year.
The Port aims to capture 35 percent of the trade in the Middle East in the next two years.
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