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Source: Institute for Southern Studies

Profit at DP World rose 6.3% to $295m for the first half of 2013, its global container volumes falling nearly 6% driven by weaker conditions in Asia – Pacific and the Indian sub-continent.
The Dubai-headquartered terminal operator’s consolidated throughput fell 5.7% to 12.8m teu while revenue per teu increased 6.2%, meaning that overall revenues dipped just 1.53% to $1.5bn.
The Australia and Americas region was alone in improving on last year’s results, throughput inched up 0.2% to 1.1m teu, revenues rose 9.9% to $292m and EBITDA rose 29.8% to $100m.
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