The terminal will increase the port's capacity by five million TEUs, bringing the total to 14 million TEUs.
"Our long-term vision to expand the port continues. We have to keep adapting ourself. Our mission is to expand but also to optimise," said Anwar Wajdi, senior vice-president of corporate strategy, DP World, at a ports development conference in Dubai, reported Gulf News.
By 2012, the company's new port at Taweelah will also be coming online.