Transport Minister honours Mwani Qatar, QTerminals on Hamad Port performance

Minister of Transport HE Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti Sunday honoured Mwani Qatar and QTerminals in recognition of their teams’ distinct work that led to Hamad Port ranking in the top ten container ports worldwide in 2021 and 2022.
Hamad Port topped the Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) developed by the World Bank Group and Standard & Poor's Global Market Intelligence.
Mwani Qatar’s Chief Executive Officer Captain Abdulla Mohamed al-Khanji and Group Chief Executive Officer of QTerminals Neville Bissett received the appreciation certificates.
Hamad Port in 2021 was ranked as the world’s third most efficient gateway in terms of container transportation and delivery to the administrative areas, and in 2022 ranked eighth in the CPPI’s administrative and statistical approaches in terms of the time a ship needed to spend at the port to complete loading and uploading. Hamad Port advanced from the 38th place worldwide in 2020.
The CPPI is intended to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement that will ultimately benefit all stakeholders from shipping lines to national governments to consumers. The CPPI, which in its 2022 edition covers nearly 350 global ports, is based on total port hours per ship call, defined as the time spent between a ship’s arrival in a port and its departure from the berth having completed its cargo exchange.
Hamad Port’s achievement reflects efficient operations and modern infrastructure, facilities, and services. The ranking also shows that Hamad Port keeps moving forward firmly towards more powerful positions as one of the key ports in the Middle East and the region, targeting a more efficient logistics services industry in Qatar and the transformation into a leading global trade hub, thus enhancing its economic diversification plans in step with the Qatar National Vision 2030.
In 2022, Hamad Port received some 1,569 ships, handled over 1.40mn TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) and 1.5mn tonnes of bulk cargo.