Dubai World Ports stated that its strategy aims to achieve sustainable growth and create continuous value through disciplined capital allocation and operational excellence, targeting a 15% return on invested capital in the medium term. The company focuses on high-growth and emerging markets, continuing to invest in origin and destination ports to support long-term trade growth. According to its 2025 annual report, the logistics division's revenue increased by 24.7% year-on-year, driven by accelerated growth in integrated logistics solutions. Dubai World Ports confirmed that as part of its strategic goals, it continues to develop supply chain solutions, offering them to a broader base of cargo owners, and expanding its logistics services across air, sea, land, and rail to serve a wide range of industries and markets, with a focus on high-growth and emerging markets. The company's focus is on enhancing its capabilities within current sectors and developing specialized solutions in sub-sectors that meet the operational and regulatory needs of clients and align with their business models. The company continues to invest in origin and destination ports, fostering long-term trade growth, enhancing value for clients, and increasing capacity at key ports in both emerging and advanced markets. In addition to supporting cargo owners, the group also supports shipping line clients by utilizing available capacity, operational efficiency initiatives, and selective automation when needed. These efforts aim to enhance performance at core operational sites, whether at berths or yards. It provides integrated supply chain solutions that improve efficiency and establish higher levels of coordination and reliability for cargo owners through its global network, experience, and digital capabilities, including centralized digital platform solutions—control towers. Its offering includes a comprehensive suite of services, from transportation and storage to value-added logistics, enabling clients to move their goods efficiently across multiple connection points and diverse markets. Its digital platforms provide a higher level of transparency and support the execution of operations and coordination across all stages of the supply chain, helping clients to effectively navigate complexities in the commercial landscape, reduce costs, and improve supply chain performance. The company adopts an approach based on disciplined capital allocation and operational excellence to achieve sustainable growth and create sustainable value, targeting a 15% return on invested capital in the medium term through selective investments, improved asset allocation efficiency, and the provision of integrated supply chain solutions. As it advances in implementing its strategy, Dubai World Ports has continued to improve its returns, increasing the return on invested capital from 8.9% to 9.9% during the year, thanks to disciplined capital allocation, improved operational performance, and the growing contribution of higher-value services, bringing it closer to its target of a 15% return on invested capital in the medium term. It noted a 24.7% year-on-year increase in the logistics division's revenue due to accelerated growth in integrated logistics solutions and the continued expansion of this sector, reflecting its focus on enhancing its capabilities within current sectors, expanding shipping and contract logistics services, and supporting cargo owners amid evolving trade patterns and regulatory requirements.
