AMMAN — A total of 1,703 ships docked in the
southern
Red Sea port of Aqaba in the January–November period of this year,
indicating an increase of 18 percent from 1,449, the figure reported in the
same period of 2020, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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Secretary-General of the
Jordan Navigation Syndicate (JNS),
Mohammad Dalabih told Petra that the increase was driven by higher number of
seafarers from and to Egypt, noting that a total of 233,000 passengers traveled
through the port this year, against 72,000 in 2020.
However, Dalabih revealed that the number of containers
handled by the port in the 11-month period dropped by 10 percent to 680,000
from the 782,000 recorded in the corresponding period of 2020, blaming higher
global freight costs.
Conversely, the
Aqaba port handled about 13.7 million tons
of inbound cargo this year, compared with 13.1 million tons in the same
reporting period of 2020, signaling a 5 percent rise, Dalabih noted.
Moreover, on the number of vehicles imported and re-exported
via the import, Dalabih said the January-November figure stood at 101,773, down
2 percent from the figure reported in the same period of 2020.
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