Trade depends on infrastructure that can keep pace with the changing dynamics of global business. We invest where stronger terminals can improve supply chain resilience and help customers, economies and communities prosper.
Shifting patterns of global trade, geopolitical volatility and growing pressures on port and landside infrastructure are reshaping global supply chains. Efficient, high-performing terminals provide the capacity and reliability that shipping networks need to perform and that countries need to compete.
Our approach is disciplined and long term. We modernise existing terminals, expand capacity in strategic locations and develop new gateways where infrastructure is needed to keep pace with growing demand.
We focus on locations where long-term trade growth, customer demand and infrastructure needs converge. A diversified portfolio of gateway and hub terminals across mature and emerging markets gives us the flexibility to respond quickly to macro-economic shifts.
Across our portfolio, we work with governments, port authorities and local partners to align long-term investment with national priorities. Combining public stewardship, private capital and operational expertise accelerates infrastructure development and creates lasting value.
The need for new capacity is greatest where trade is already outgrowing current infrastructure.
In Brazil, APM Terminals Suape represents an investment of more than USD 350 million. The fully electrified terminal will provide an initial annual capacity of 400,000 TEU and increase the container-handling capacity of the Suape Port Complex by 55%.
In Bangladesh, APM Terminals Laldia is a USD 550 million public-private partnership that will add more than 800,000 TEU of annual capacity at the port. The terminal will make it possible for larger vessels to call at Chattogram and will improve supply-chain reliability for the country's export economy.
In Vietnam, a new terminal in Da Nang will support the expanding industrial base of central Vietnam.
In Croatia, Rijeka Gateway is strengthening the North Adriatic's role as a gateway to Central Europe.
Growth is not only about developing new terminals. It also means creating more capacity and improving performance at existing sites.
As vessels become larger, pressure moves beyond the quay to terminal yards, gates, roads and railways. Our modernisation programmes, therefore, focus on improving the entire flow of cargo between land and sea.
In Germany, APM Terminals and Eurogate plan to invest EUR 1 billion in the North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven. This investment will increase annual capacity from three million to four million TEU.
In the United States, modernisation at Pier 400 in Los Angeles, APM Terminals Elizabeth in New Jersey and APM Terminals Mobile in Alabama is increasing the capacity and reliience of key trade gateways.
Technology supports this progress, but operational discipline comes first. We improve and standardise processes before applying automation where it can make operations safer, more reliable and more productive.
Our ambition is not simply to build bigger terminals; it is to create stronger trade gateways that give customers greater certainty and that help countries maximise the potential of their ports.
By combining disciplined investment, operational excellence and trusted partnerships, APM Terminals is strengthening the infrastructure on which global trade depends. This helps customers grow with confidence while supporting more resilent supply chaings and long-term economic development.
In March 2025, APM Terminals and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) agreed to extend APM Terminals Elizabeth's lease, marking a significant milestone in the company’s enduring partnership with the port, which dates back over a century.
As reported in February 2025, APM Terminals invested US$300 million in expanding the Port of Salalah. The investment included upgrades to all six existing berths and an expansion of the yard, increasing terminal capacity to 6.5 million TEUs.
APM Terminals signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) in February 2025 with the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications of Bahrain to deepen the company’s collaboration with the kingdom.
When a 3-year expansion project completed in December 2024, total capacity at APM Terminals MedPort Tangier increased to 5.2 million TEUs annually and two kilometers of berth length.
With a planned investment of R$1.6 billion, APM Terminals Suape commenced the construction in 2024 of Latin America's first 100% electrified container terminal at the Governador Eraldo Gueiros Industrial Port Complex (Suape) in Pernambuco State, Brazil.
In October 2024, the Cabinet in Amman approved a concession extension for Aqaba Container Terminal, operated by APM Terminals in partnership with Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC). ACT is a premier gateway and transit hub that supports the economy in Jordan and neighboring countries.
APM Terminals inaugurated the US$115 million upgrade of the West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) in September 2024. The upgrade including an extensive yard expansion, state-of-the-art equipment acquisitions and the building of a modern office complex.
The final four of ten supersized ship-to-shore cranes arrived in the Port of Salalah’s in June 2024 as part of a US$300 million expansion plan.
APM Terminals ramped up capacity in June 2024 with agreements for 240 pieces of container handling equipment to be delivered to five terminals in Latin America, Africa and Europe.
Port of Tanjung Pelepas Sdn Bhd (PTP), a joint venture between the MMC Group and APM Terminals in Malaysia, agreed with Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co Ltd (ZPMC) in May 2024 to purchase five additional ultra large container vessel (ULCV) quay cranes.
APM Terminals Maasvlakte II signed a contract in March 2024 with Austrian crane builder Kuenz for 62 automated rail mounted Gantry cranes (ARMGs).
APM Terminals Callao received environmental approval in November 2023 to commence development works.
In an historic moment for Ghana’s maritime landscape, the second phase of the Tema Port Expansion Project — dubbed “New Era in Ghana’s maritime industry” — was launched in November 2023.
A EUR 1 billion investment in APM Terminals Maasvlakte II in Rotterdam was announced in March 2023 that would expand the terminal by approximately 47.5 hectares, increasing the terminal's capacity by approximately 2 million TEUs.
In November 2021, APM Terminals (51%) and Enna Logic (49%) signed a concession agreement to design, construct and operate a state-of-the-art container terminal, Rijeka Gateway, on Croatia's North Adriatic coast.
