DP World’s deep-water terminal in Posorja, Ecuador, has been ranked the most efficient port in Latin America and the Caribbean and 21st worldwide in the latest Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) 2020–2024, jointly produced by the World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence.
The 2025 edition covers the 2024 calendar year and, for the first time, analyzes five-year trends.
The CPPI assesses how quickly container ships are turned around in port, based on vessel time in port across 403 ports, 175,000 vessel calls and 247 million container moves.
In its summary of global results, the World Bank singled out Posorja among developing-country ports that recorded notable improvements between 2020 and 2024. As the only Ecuadorian port in the global Top 100, Posorja tops regional efficiency tables in the LAC region.
Nicolas Peltier-Thiberge, the World Bank’s Global Director for Transport, said that even amid multiple shocks, “developing country ports are finding ways to adapt and improve,” noting planning, technology and cooperation as key drivers.
Turloch Mooney of S&P Global added that the CPPI serves as a diagnostic tool to pinpoint operational bottlenecks and strategies to enhance performance.
Opened in 2019 as Ecuador’s first modern deep-water container terminal under a 50-year concession, DP World Posorja has grown rapidly. DP World reports the terminal handled 955,728 TEU in 2024, making it Ecuador’s market-share leader last year. The operator is now expanding capacity: a berth extension to 700 meters is underway and the terminal took delivery of two new ship-to-shore cranes with up to 68-meter outreach to handle the largest vessels calling the west coast of South America.
