Operational changes across Aqaba’s port and logistics network have reduced average transit-container dwell time from around 14–15 days to approximately 12 days, according to a Petra interview published on 22 September 2026. Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority economic and investment commissioner Mohammad Abu Omar said daily container exit capacity rose from 900 to 1,200. Containers serving Jordan’s domestic market still averaged around eight days in the system. The figures are reported operational indicators, with exit capacity distinct from a count of containers actually dispatched on every day.

The package extends the grace period for national exports from seven to fourteen days for six months. A separate temporary reduction cuts the fee for destroying goods from JD500 to JD50 per tonne, or part of a tonne, for three months under Cabinet conditions. This charge concerns disposal of accumulated goods and is not a general freight or container-handling tariff. Customs work includes inspections at arrival centres where possible, moving some refrigerated-container inspections to Yard No. 4, allowing clearance of certain goods in Madounah and increasing use of risk-based targeting. Processing may continue during public holidays when needed.

Container trucks can make nine monthly trips instead of eight, while the minimum interval between loads falls from 48 to 30 hours. Entry and exit permits have a six-hour validity instead of eight hours. Transit journeys through border crossings are exempted from trip limits for three months. Trucks meeting technical and safety requirements may carry two twenty-foot containers. ASEZA also allocated another 150 dunums for empty-container storage, and additional multipurpose-port space is being prepared for up to 6,000 more vehicles. These measures address the wider transport and storage chain rather than only congestion inside the terminal.

The commissioner said authorities were transferring 1,500–2,000 unclaimed containers to logistics yards, following legal procedures and exclusions for judicial or administrative cases. Refrigerated-cargo facilities gained 120 electrical connections, while authorities were addressing refrigerated-truck availability. Food supplies, domestic-market imports and national exports receive priority in handling, clearance and exit. Abu Omar said many measures were already in force, while storage expansion, transfers and additional refrigerated capacity continued. Government bodies and port operators are to review performance together and adjust operations. The interview therefore combines reported early results with work still underway; it does not describe every component as completed.