WAM | Abu Dhabi Non-oil Foreign Trade totals AED 109.2 billion: SCAD

As the report finds, the volume of imports through Abu Dhabi ports during 2010 was 6.2 per cent higher compared with 2009.

Imports volumes by sea amounted to 8,196.3 thousand tonnes in 2010, an increase of 11.0 per cent compared with 2009. Imports by sea also accounted for the largest share contributing 64.2 per cent of total imports volumes in 2010, while imports by land declined by 1.6 per cent and contributed 35.3 per cent of total imports. In the meantime, imports by air increased by 6.6 per cent in 2010 compared with 2009, but contributed only 0.5 percent of total imports.

According to SCAD's report, the distribution of imports by geography shows that the bulk of imports came from three continents, namely, Asia, Europe and Northern America with a combined contribution of 93.4 per cent of total imports in 2010, down from 95.9 per cent in 2009.

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