Double-digit profit growth fueled by integrated ports, logistics, and shipping clusters.
ABU DHABI: AD Ports Group, a leading global enabler of trade, industry, and logistics solutions, has released its 2025 Annual Report, highlighting a year of record revenue and profits.
The group reported strengthening its key trade corridors and operational geographies, optimising its asset portfolio and balance sheet, and investing in port infrastructure, logistics capabilities, and maritime connectivity to drive profit-enhancing international expansion.
The report, “Curating Connectivity,” underscores the Group’s success in leveraging its presence across key markets—including the UAE, Europe, Egypt, Pakistan, and Africa—to enhance integrated trade platforms, improve performance, and boost global connectivity. This was achieved despite a challenging year marked by regional conflicts, tariffs, a weakening global macroeconomic environment, and ongoing supply chain disruptions.
Revenue and Profits
AD Ports Group’s Ports, Economic Cities & Free Zones, and Maritime & Shipping Clusters were key drivers of record revenue and profits, with Group revenue reaching Dh20.77 billion ($5.65 billion) and net profit at Dh2.07 billion ($563.6 million)—up 20% and 16%, respectively, compared with 2024.
Revenue and profits have increased more than fivefold since 2020, supported by the Group’s “intelligent internationalisation” strategy and substantial domestic investments that reinforce Abu Dhabi’s position as a global trade and industrial hub.
Expansion Plans
In 2025, AD Ports Group announced plans with global shipping partner CMA CGM Group to expand their joint CMA Terminals Khalifa Port container facility in Abu Dhabi, less than a year after its opening, responding to strong demand.
On the international front, the Group acquired equity stakes in leading container terminal operators in Egypt and Syria. It also unveiled plans with Egyptian partners to develop the 20 km² KEZAD East Port Said Industrial and Logistics Zone at the Mediterranean entrance of the Suez Canal.
Scale and Resilience
Mohamed Hassan Alsuwaidi, Chairman of AD Ports Group, said:
“The Group’s results reflect not only the scale and resilience of its diversified business model and integrated clusters, but also the growing confidence that customers, partners, and investors place in AD Ports Group as a long-term driver of sustainable growth. Our operational agility allows us to pivot profitably in volatile trading environments, delivering consistently strong results through the cycle.”
Strategic Execution and Customer Growth
Captain Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, Managing Director and Group CEO of AD Ports Group, said:
“Our performance in 2025 reflects disciplined execution, the growing maturity of our asset base, and the increasing strategic importance of our corridor-focused and regional strategy to customers and partners worldwide. Guided by our leadership, we continued to interconnect our ports, maritime services, logistics platforms, and economic zones into a coherent ecosystem, enabling customers to move cargo, capital, and operations more efficiently along key trade corridors.”
A key achievement was leveraging the Group’s expanding global network to secure more business from existing major customers while growing its client base across five continents.
Customer Base Up 20%
In 2025, the Group’s customer base grew by nearly 20%, with spending from its top 10 customers rising approximately 40%, underscoring the increasing appeal of its end-to-end solutions.
Global Recognition and Sustainability Achievements
Reflecting the Group’s growing global role, Khalifa Port was ranked 39th in the 2025 Lloyd’s List Top 100 Ports ranking of the world’s largest container ports, up from its first appearance at 95th in 2019.
During the year, AD Ports Group also received a Guinness World Record™ for deploying 205 agentic AI agents across a global logistics operation. The Group reduced the carbon intensity of its global operations per unit of revenue by 18% compared with 2024, highlighting the success of its energy efficiency initiatives, low-carbon investments, and transition toward more electrified operations, particularly in Ports and Maritime & Shipping.
Strategic Direction
AD Ports Group sustained resilient growth through the operational ramp-up of its core businesses, ongoing investment in new infrastructure and services, and selective mergers and acquisitions.
The Group also strengthened its balance sheet via strong performance from core operations and the launch of an active asset monetisation programme, expected to raise Dh4.6 billion through the sale of land, warehouses, and a financial stake in NMDC, a global leader in engineering, procurement, construction, and marine dredging, subject to market conditions, regulatory approvals, and execution considerations.
Global Expansion and Corridor Development
The UAE’s non-oil economic growth and shifts in global supply chains continued to provide financial tailwinds, supporting AD Ports Group’s profitable international expansion.
In 2025, the Group launched container feeder shipping services in West and East Africa, commenced multipurpose port terminal operations and an inland logistics business in Angola, and expanded port operations in Pakistan, including dredging work and a partnership with Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) to develop and operate a clean bulk handling and storage facility for agricultural goods at Karachi Port. These initiatives reflect the Group’s ongoing efforts to strengthen key trade corridors.
Overall, 2025 was a year of consolidation and strategic refinement. In 2026, AD Ports Group will continue to focus on deepening its corridor-based model, integrating assets, and converting operational presence into sustainable long-term value. Key priorities include developing, upgrading, and commencing commercial operations at port terminals in the UAE, Safaga (Egypt), Karachi (Pakistan), and Latakia (Syria).
Market Overview
Global shipping markets in 2025 operated amid exceptional geopolitical, regulatory, and macroeconomic complexity. Trade flows were reshaped by ongoing sanctions, heightened trade policy uncertainty, and persistent disruptions to Red Sea and Suez Canal transits. AD Ports Group adapted its operations to these challenges in line with international and local regulations.
For diversified trade enablers like AD Ports Group, these market conditions created differentiated opportunities across ports, logistics, and economic cities platforms.
The UAE economy continued to provide a stable and supportive environment for maritime and logistics activity. According to the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), GDP grew by approximately 5% in 2025, driven by non-oil expansion in trade, logistics, manufacturing, and services.
As a result, UAE non-oil foreign trade exceeded USD 1 trillion (AED 3.8 trillion) in 2025—a 26% increase over the previous year—achieving targets five years ahead of schedule and highlighting the accelerating momentum of the country’s economic diversification strategy.
While global container trade growth is important to AD Ports Group’s operating model, it is not the sole measure of the Group’s performance. The diversified business continues to add capacity, ramp up operations, enhance efficiency, develop synergies across its clusters, expand into higher-growth regions, and benefit from the UAE’s economic diversification strategy and that of its major trading partners.
The 2025 Annual Report is available on the AD Ports Group website: www.adportsgroup.com/en.
