DP World provides a wide range of cargo handling services, with our core activity being container terminal operations. The throughput for the company was around 43.4 million* TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent container units) in 2009.
In addition to containers, many DP World terminals are also able to handle:
- General cargo - across our portfolio in Australasia, the Americas, Africa, Europe and the Far East
- Bulk cargo - e.g. at ports in Africa, Australasia and the Far East
- Ro-Ro vessels - including car handling at a number of ports
- Passenger - DP World runs a number of passenger terminals worldwide, including in the Americas and the Philippines
C-TPAT Certification
DP World has been certified as the first, and to date, the only international port operator to partner in the Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism (C-TPAT) initiative by US Customs and Border Patrol. By being certified into this programme, DP World has once again proved its commitment to maintaining and managing high levels of maritime security standards, procedures and processes at all its global business units.
This certification was primarily based on DP World’s commitment to ISO 28000 standards (Security Management System standards for securing the global supply chain) of which DP World was the first global maritime terminal operator to achieve certification. With the C-TPAT certification, DP World becomes the only global marine terminal operator to have achieved ISO 28000 and C-TPAT certification simultaneously.
As of today, all DP World terminals are fully certified as C-TPAT members; this will also be the case for new or future DP World terminals (where DP World corporate security standards are implemented)
Achieving the C-TPAT certification marks out DP World’s commitment and contribution to securing the global supply chain and ensuring continued free flow of international trade. It additionally provides DP World, and its customers, with C-TPAT benefits such as reduced cargo exams, priority clearance of containers, training, sharing of information etc.
*Gross throughput for all terminals as at 31 December 2009
