Qatar Navigation (Milaha), one of the leading maritime and logistics conglomerates in the region, has announced that its container shipping business has more than doubled within a short span of time.
The remarkable growth achieved, both in terms of the number of vessels as well as the volume of containers handled, got accelerated over the last couple of years, especially after the blockade imposed on Qatar by the Arab quartet, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which were previously the two major destinations from Qatari imports.
“Given the rising demand for our services, we have been increasing our fleet steadily with the total number of vessels increasing over 100 units which are operating across multiple sectors.
Out of that, some 15 ships are dedicated to container shipping service, which has more than doubled compared to seven vessels used for the same purpose just about 2-3 years ago,” Abdulrahman Al Mannai, President and CEO of Milaha told The Peninsula.
Al Mannai added: “With the opening of the new port (Hamad Port), we are also using bigger vessels for container shipping as the scale of our operations has expanded significantly.” He noted that over the last one year and a-half, Milaha has opened many new shipping lines serving a lot of new markets.
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