Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT) handled 107,803 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in September while serving 53 vessels. A company statement published on October 4 and carried by Petra said the month marked a third consecutive record, following July and August, with volumes above the 100,000-TEU threshold. TEU is a standard measure of container capacity: one unit represents the volume of a twenty-foot container. The figure therefore does not necessarily mean 107,803 individual physical boxes, because a larger container can represent more than one TEU. The release describes handling activity at the terminal during September. It does not state the value of the goods, their origin and destination mix, or Jordan's total trade for the month.

The company said transit cargo accounted for 14,712 TEUs and that truck movements through the terminal gates reached 45,901. Transit volume was about 13.6 percent of September throughput, a calculation obtained by dividing 14,712 by 107,803. Gate movements refer to reported movements in and out; the statement does not say how many distinct vehicles or unique shipments those movements represent. In a separate period comparison, ACT reported handling 472,680 TEUs in the first half of 2026, against 468,062 in the same period of 2025. Transit cargo in that half-year reached 60,178 TEUs, up 155.1 percent year on year. Those figures provide context on the terminal's first-half activity, but they cover six months and should not be combined with September's monthly total as if they were the same reporting period.

Terminal operator APM Terminals describes Aqaba as a gateway for Jordan and the Levant. In its review of 2025, the company said ACT surpassed one million TEUs for the full year and linked its operating performance to investment in vessel and yard operations. September's new high extends a run of three months above 100,000 TEUs, but the monthly total by itself cannot establish whether the increase reflects durable demand, seasonal shipment timing or shifts in regional routes. The statement quoted by Petra said the consecutive records reflected Aqaba's role in regional trade and its ability to handle growing cargo flows. Port throughput can help track logistics activity and the movement of goods through a key national gateway. To assess its broader economic effect, readers would also need trade values, cargo origin and destination, import-export-transit splits, and later monthly data. The available figures show terminal activity, not a complete account of Jordanian trade or supply-chain costs.