{"id":7239,"date":"2004-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2004\/05\/01\/apmt-to-manage-aqaba\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:31:39","slug":"apmt-to-manage-aqaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/middle-east\/apmt-to-manage-aqaba\/","title":{"rendered":"APMT to manage Aqaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aqaba Development Corporation, which owns ACT, has therefore called in APMT to undertake the modernisation of existing systems, including introducing a new IT network to speed up handling. If APMT meets pre-agreed targets, it will then be eligible to sign a 25-year joint venture concession with the Aqaba Special Economic Zone to further develop the box terminal. The present facility has a 540 metre long quay with alongside draught of 10.5 metres and a stacking yard of 450,000 sq metres.<\/p>\n<p>However, should planned expansion of the terminal take place, then capacity would effectively be doubled.<\/p>\n<p>Privatisation of the terminal is opposed by workers&#8217; groups, who contend that cargo is being lost to neighbouring Syrian and Lebanese ports because of a lack of modern handling equipment and overly rigid regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APM Terminals has signed a two-year agreement to manage and develop Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), Jordans only box-handling facility, which registered a throughput of 320,000TEUs in 2003. This award was almost certainly prompted by shipping lines levying congestion surcharges on containers offloaded at the port. Those arriving from the Far East are faced with a $300 surcharge, while ex-US or Europe boxes pay an additional $475 to offset increasing waiting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7241,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239\/revisions\/7241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7239"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}