Saudi ports saw container throughput increase by 2.5% in March this year compared with the same month in 2021, handling a total of 865,000 containers. Container transhipment activity was especially buoyant jumping by 17%, to 503,000 containers, against March last year.
In other sectors the number of passengers increased by 84.2%, to 98,000, and the number of cars increased by 15.5% to 78,000 units. However Saudi ports recorded a decrease in imported livestock, which dropped by 73.4% to a total of 105,000 head.
Total cargo throughput during the month was around 25 million tons. This was more or less the same as the same period in 2020. One of the star performers was Yanbu Commercial Port, which handled more than 500,000 tons of general cargo during March 2022. This represented an 85% increase compared to the 271,000 tons recorded at the same time last year.
