Port Qasim ranked 5th among world’s 20 fastest-growing ports

Port Qasim has been ranked fifth among the world’s 20 fastest-improving container ports over the 2020–2025 period. According to the Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) 2025, jointly published by the World Bank Group and S&P Global Market Intelligence, the port Qasim CPPI score climbed to 60.1 in 2025 from a baseline of 8 in 2020, a 52-point gain. Port Elizabeth in South Africa posted an 80-point gain that tops this year’s list of most-improved ports. Khalifa Bin Salman Port in Bahrain, Posorja in Ecuador, and Göteborg in Sweden are also in the top five port improvers alongside Port Qasim, which was promoted to fifth rank in CPPI 2025 from ninth position in CPPI 2024.