UAE-based port operator, Gulftainer, recently registered a 23.75 percent growth in traffic at its Sharjah facilities as compared to the corresponding period in 2009, reporting that it handled 1.25 million TEUs containers from January to May this year.

Gulftainer, which climbed from the 50th to the 39th position on Dynaliners list of top world terminals in 2009, is now set to achieve a projected double-digit growth in container volumes for 2010 over the 2.75 million TEUs handled in 2009, mainly at Khorfakkan - which contributes most of the traffic at Gulftainer's Sharjah terminals.