News / DP World H1 profit surges on investment success and the pick-up in global trade

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Consolidated throughput at DP World’s container terminals increased by a like-for-like 11.2% in the first six months of the year, compared with the same period of 2013, to 13.9m teu, driving its revenue up 11.6% on the same basis to $1.66bn and its net profit by 25.8% to $332m, from $264m a year earlier.

DP World chairman Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem said: “The addition of new capacity and a pick-up in global trade has resulted in a return to robust volume ...