Gulftainer company has marked another significant milestone with the Sharjah Container Terminal (SCT) surpassing 400,000 TEUs (20-foot equivalent units) in annual throughput during 2014.

SCT has again recorded double-digit growth compared to previous year's volumes. The achievement was reached with an impressive safety record under challenging conditions including space constraints, a Wam report said.

Iain Rawlinson, group commercial director of Gulftainer, said: "The professional approach of Gulftainer's management, along with consistently high productivity levels, was a driving force behind the terminal's success. SCT has always marketed itself as 'The Flexible Alternative' and the individual attention we extend to our customers offers us an advantage over competitors."

The 400,000th unit was discharged from Mag Container Lines' vessel, 'Mag Success', one of the terminal's regular callers, which considers Sharjah as her base port.

Speaking on behalf of Mag Line, business development manager Jamal Saleh congratulated the terminal for its achievement.

The strong performance of the Sharjah economy has supported the growth of many of SCT's customers, enabling them to increase their throughput and contribute to a record year for the terminal, the report said.

SCT's figures have been further boosted with the arrival of new services throughout the year, including UASC's Gulf India Service (GIS1), which now connects Sharjah with Sohar in Oman, Mundra in India and Karachi in Pakistan.