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Descripción:Transhipment deals for Salalah

11 Nov 2010

The Port of Salalah has, alongside its general cargo offering, attracted a degree of transhipment so it is now in the process of adding to its feeder network in order to support lines without their own service.

Although these lines have yet to come in, Salalah chief executive Peter Ford told Port Strategy that the port was already “in the process of negotiation with reputable feeder companies” for a solution.

Further, he says that Salalah “won’t make the mistake of looking too much at simply the size or the name on the ship” when planning the berths as this leads to blockages. “You have to look at total cargo flows, rather than simply push the bigger ships through first,” he said.

Although Salalah has reached the area’s number two spot, the Mr Ford shared a timely warning about transhipment’s Teflon qualities.

He explained to PS that despite the port’s good location on the rim of the Indian Ocean, right at the major crossroads of the east-west shipping lanes, “deepwater and location still isn’t enough”.

Initiatives to make the transhipment activity stick to the port have included working with a government initiative, the Salalah Free Zone. This benefits from a trade agreement that was signed between Oman and the US last year, and it offers to meet the distribution, material processing, and assembly market needs. “It gets the cargo in, and adds value by assemblage or processing.

"Moreover, since the local market is comparatively small, the Free Zone has realised it can take advantage of the relationship with the port to go out into other, more distant regions – which broadens cargo possibilities for all concerned.”

http://www.portstrategy.com/news101/world/middle-east/transhipment-deals-for-salalah

Port of Salalah’s Global Strength Confirmed by Container Port Global Ranking

Posted on Sep 17th, 2013

Containerisation International has recently issued its annual guide to the world’s Top 100 container ports for 2012 where the Port of Salalah has achieved ranking among the top 30 global ports by annual volume for the third year running.

The guide supplies not only the latest figures for the ports up to end 2012 but also a broad summary of the ports’ activity and key data. In a list of Middle Eastern top ports the Port of Salalah maintained its fifth place ranking with container volumes registering at 3.62 million, nearly equal to the volume handled at Port Said which handled approximately 3.63 million in 2012.

Port of Salalah saw a 13.1% growth in container volumes in 2012, reversing an 8.2% fall in 2011 when there was a shift in transhipment traffic. As a port which has historically relied on transhipment cargo, Salalah has assembled a 20-year port master plan that developslocal Omani energy and commodities production, which would offset vulnerabilities in fluctuations of the global container shipping market.

“Ports are facing increasing competitive pressure, and Salalah’s growth and development will be measured by our ability to continue driving local investment growth, and by our internal teams in delivering efficiency and consistently good customer service,” said Ahmed Akaak, acting CEO at the Port of Salalah.

Recently a delegations team from the Public Establishment for Industrial Estate (PEIE) had visited the Port of Salalahto explore mutual opportunities to attract investments seeking supply chain efficiencies and smart solutions for their logistics requirements.

Akaak added, “We are working closely to provide Industrial Estates customers with the best logistic solutions to export their products to the rest of the world. These companies can grow only when there are the supply chain solutions in place to help them deliver higher volumes and to expanded markets. We have achieved a lot of success for the growth of existing customers at the Raysut Industrial Estate and Salalah Free Zone.”

In a separate study on global ports issued recentlyissued by the JOC Group, Port of Salalah has ranked sixth top transshipment port globally and 18th top port globallybased on port productivity, which had tracked efficiency in berth movements for the past 5 years across 600 port terminals.

http://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/93401/port-of-salalah-global-strength-confirmed-by-container-port-global-ranking/

Port of Salalah is the largest port in Oman. Situated in the Dhofar Governorate, on the Indian Ocean, it is centrally located at the crossroads of trade between Asia and Europe, with the markets of East Africa, the Red Sea, the Indian Subcontinent and the Arabian/Persian Gulf on its doorstep.

The port has been managed by APM Terminals, the Dutch terminal operating company, since 1998. The operating company, Salalah Port Services Company (S.A.O.G.), is listed on the Omani stock exchange.

The port operates both a container terminal and a general cargo terminal, and serves the local and regional community.

The port was formerly known as Raysut Harbour or Mina' Raysut or Port Raysut. It can accommodate large vessels up to 16m draft. It is the main Container Transhipment Terminal of the region.

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