{"id":3892,"date":"2013-12-09T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2013\/12\/09\/middle-east-overcapacity-talk-dismissed\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:35:47","slug":"middle-east-overcapacity-talk-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2013\/12\/09\/middle-east-overcapacity-talk-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East overcapacity talk dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dirk Van Den Bosch, chief commercial officer, DP World UAE Region, questioned the view that there is a \u201cspectre of overcapacity\u201d hanging over the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are enough economic and trade drivers to justify the need for expansion in our region,\u201d he told delegates.<\/p>\n<p>DP World senior vice president and managing director, UAE Region, Mohammed Al Muallem explained that committed developments and expansions will take the operator\u2019s global capacity to more than 100m teu by 2020, in line with market demand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year we handled more than 56m teu, with the figure for the first three quarters of this year registering around 41m teu, and our UAE Region reaching record throughput and extremely high levels of utilisation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martijn Van de Linde, chief executive of Abu Dhabi Terminals, added that he expected the \u201clion\u2019s share\u201d of port capacity would continue to be in the UAE for the foreseeable future. \u201cWe feel that regional capacity will still be highly utilised and that an increasing share of capacity will be automated.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of overcapacity in the Middle East has been rejected by DP World at TOC Middle East in Dubai this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3894,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions\/3894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}