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COMCEC Transport and Communications

Outlook 2018

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Figure 16 provides distribution of the container port traffic among the OIC regions in 2017. As

the figure shows, the OIC-MENA region outperforms other regions in terms of container port

traffic. In the OIC-MENA region UAE, Egypt, and Turkey were the top performers regarding

container throughput. For the OIC-Asia region most of the traffic were handled by a few

countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia. It should also be underlined that the scope of the

container port traffic is very limited in the OIC-Sub-Saharan Africa.

Figure 16: Container port traffic in the OIC regions (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) (2017)

Source: The World Bank World Development Indicators

As of 2014, the container penetration intensity (share of containerisation in break bulk and

general cargo traffic) in several OIC countries were many times lower than the rate for the global

market (~100 TEU per 1,000 capita), and far lower than that of developed countries (~230 TEU

per 1,000 capita). Especially, some OIC countries such as Nigeria, Algeria, and Bangladesh show

very low container volumes in comparison with the size of their economies and populations as

Table 11 reveals. On the other hand, a few OIC countries (e.g. UAE and Oman) have very high

container penetration levels although their figures should be readjusted to account for their high

transshipment traffic.

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