United Arab Emirates - Container port traffic

Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)

The value for Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) in United Arab Emirates was 19,297,680 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21,233,200 in 2015 and a minimum value of 5,055,801 in 2000.

Definition: Port container traffic measures the flow of containers from land to sea transport modes., and vice versa, in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a standard-size container. Data refer to coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units.

Source: UNCTAD (http://unctad.org/en/Pages/statistics.aspx)

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Year Value
2000 5,055,801
2001 5,081,964
2002 5,872,240
2003 6,955,202
2004 8,661,636
2005 9,851,709
2006 10,967,050
2007 13,182,410
2008 14,756,130
2009 14,425,040
2010 15,177,440
2011 16,866,910
2012 18,120,110
2013 18,693,110
2014 20,223,610
2015 21,233,200
2016 20,413,200
2017 19,128,300
2018 19,054,000
2019 19,171,000
2020 19,297,680

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Transportation