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Jordan Industry, Trade & Logistics Tracker
Jordan's industrial base, the goods it trades and the fleet that moves them — built from the Department of Statistics and the transport regulator, and current to June 2026.
Industrial production
88.9
Index, 2018 = 100 · June 2026
▼ 1.3% vs a year earlier
Output against its 2018 base
−11.1 pts
Where the index sits against 100
Series low 8.5, high 122.4
Volume less producer prices
−6.6 pp
Output growth minus price growth · June 2026
Volume −1.3%, prices +5.3%
National exports · rolling 12 months
JD 9,909m
To June 2026
▲ 9.6% vs the twelve before
Re-exports · rolling 12 months
JD 3,083m
23.7% of all exports, to June 2026
▲ 24.3% vs the twelve before
Transport and storage
5.2%
Share of GDP · 2024
▼ 0.3 pp vs 2019
Period
A · What Jordan makes
The production index counts physical quantities against a 2018 base, so a reading of 88.86 means the country is making 11.1 per cent less than it did in 2018. It is the longest clean series on this page — 138 months.
Industrial production
Monthly index, 2018 = 100, with its twelve-month average
The three divisions, rebased
January 2015 = 100 for each, so the paths can be compared
How the index is read. It measures physical quantities against a 2018 base of 100, not money. At 88.86 in June 2026 it sits 11.1% below the 2018 level, and it has spent the whole series between 8.5 and 122.4. Mining is −6.7% on the year, manufacturing −1.1% and utilities +0.7%. January 2025 is not published. The statistics office omits it from this table for every activity; the four divisions above are recovered from its own release of March 2025, derived twice and agreeing to within a hundredth of a point, and the total matches the level printed there.
Which industries are moving
Change between February and June, this year against last
Volume against price
Output growth and producer-price growth, year on year
Reading the two charts above. The left one ranks activities by how much their output changed between February and June this year against the same five months last year — February to June, not the half-year, because January is missing. The strongest is manufacture of paints, varnishes and similar coatings, printing ink and mastics at +132.5%; the weakest is manufacture of other porcelain and ceramic products at −43.8%. The right one puts output growth against producer-price growth. The gap is the squeeze: volume is running −6.6 points against prices in June 2026, which means factories are getting more for less. What would change the reading is the two lines converging — either prices easing or volumes recovering.
B · What it ships
Monthly trade detail begins in 2023, so the window here is shorter than the production series above. Every figure is in JD million. Shares of the export book are shares of national exports by value, and re-exports are counted separately throughout.
The trade book, monthly
Imports, national exports and re-exports as bars; the deficit as a line
Export cover
Total exports as a share of imports
Single months swing hard, and mostly for seasonal reasons. Imports in June 2026 were +43.5% on the same month a year earlier, while the rolling twelve months moved +5.9%. Read the trend off the rolling totals in the KPI row and the re-export chart; use a single month only where the month itself is the point.
Largest export lines
Latest twelve months against the twelve before, JD million
Largest import lines
Latest twelve months against the twelve before, JD million
Where the exports go
Total exports by destination, with the change on the year
Re-exports
The month as bars, the rolling twelve months as a line
Largest re-export lines
Goods passing through rather than made here, JD million
Reading the export book
Two things sit inside Jordan's exports and they behave differently.
Minerals and chemicals. Fertilisers, crude potassium and crude phosphates together come to JD 2,428m, or 24.6% of national exports by value — and all three are growing. They move by road to Aqaba, which is why they matter to anyone thinking about warehousing or yard space on that corridor.
Garments. Articles of apparel and clothing accessories,knitted or croc is the single largest line at JD 1,694m, 17.2% of the book, and it is −1.5% — flat to slightly down, and heavily tied to the United States.
What to watch: the mineral book is priced globally and the garment book is tied to one trade relationship. A shift in either changes what moves on the corridor, and how much.
C · Who carries it
The transport regulator publishes a quarterly count of the licensed fleet and of the companies operating in each cargo class. Its headline truck total does not move — it reads the same in five consecutive quarters while the ownership split changes underneath it — so this page charts the composition and the trailer fleet, which do move, and says plainly why the total is absent.
Who owns the trucks
Licensed trucks by ownership, with the individual share
The trailer fleet
Semi-trailers, and trailers per truck
Why there is no fleet-size chart. The regulator's licensed-truck total reads the same in five consecutive quarters while the individual and company columns move every quarter and always sum to exactly that number. It is a composition series, not a growth series, and charting it would imply a stability the register does not actually measure. What does move is the trailer fleet, up 8.5% since the start of the series, and the ownership mix, now 77.9% individually owned against 78.2% at the start.
Operators by cargo class
Companies operating in each class, now against the start of the series
Freight revenue by what is carried
2023 against 2019, JD million
Share of the economy
Each activity's share of GDP at constant prices
Reading the sector's share of the economy
Each line is one activity's share of gross domestic product at constant prices. A line that falls is not necessarily shrinking — it is growing more slowly than everything else.
Transport and storage is the only one of these losing ground: 5.2% of the economy in 2024, −0.3 points against 2019, having grown 4.4% in real terms while the economy grew 11.4%.
Set against manufacturing at 16.6% and growing 15.0%, and mining at 23.2% — the potash and phosphate boom — the pattern is a country producing and exporting more while the capacity to move it grows slower than the rest of the economy.
What would change it: the rail corridor in section E, if it is built, is the largest single thing that could shift this line.
D · Where it happens
The only governorate-level survey Jordan publishes for this sector covers the five transport divisions — land and pipelines, water, air, supporting and auxiliary transport including warehousing, and post. It is the logistics sector by governorate, not industry, and it stops at 2023. There is no manufacturing or mining breakdown by governorate in any published table.
Logistics value added by governorate
Share of the national total, 2023
Value added against establishments
By governorate, 2023 — two different scales
What the shading is, and is not. Each governorate is shaded by its share of national logistics value added in 2023 — the transport divisions only. Amman alone is 75.4%, and the top three governorates hold 88.7% between them. Aqaba, the country's only seaport, is 8.1%. The bar chart beside it puts value added against establishment counts, and the two do not line up: Zarqa carries 164 establishments against Aqaba's 70 for less value added, which is the owner-operator haulage fleet showing up in the survey. Value added is measured in JD; establishments are a count — they share a chart but not a scale.
E · The gateways, and what is actually published about them
Jordan publishes no throughput series for its seaport, its air cargo or any of its land crossings. What exists is a run of milestone announcements. They are set out here as dated citations rather than drawn as a chart, because a chart would imply a comparable series that does not exist.
| Gateway | What was announced | Published | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aqaba container terminal | Passed one million TEU across 2025; December alone 96,060 TEU. No annual total was stated. | 19 January 2026 | APM Terminals Aqaba |
| Aqaba, transit cargo | Up 177% in the first half of 2026 against the same half of 2025. | July 2026 | Jordan News, reporting the terminal operator |
| Aqaba multipurpose port | Over 5.3 million tonnes handled in 2025. No breakdown by cargo type. | 5 February 2026 | AD Ports Group |
| Aqaba, who runs it | AD Ports Group took a 30-year concession over the multipurpose port in a 70/30 joint venture with the Aqaba Development Corporation. | August 2026 | AD Ports Group |
| Air cargo, Queen Alia | 14,501 tonnes in the first quarter of 2026, down 27% on the year. | May 2026 | Reported from an Airport International Group release |
| Jaber crossing, Syria | 87,323 trucks in the first half of 2025, up 272%. A private trade body's count, not an official statistic. | July 2025 | Association of Owners of Clearance and Transport Companies |
| Aqaba phosphate railway | A $2.3bn corridor to carry phosphate and potash to the port; agreements signed, tendering through 2026. | April 2026 | Jordan and UAE governments, with Etihad Rail |
| Port turnaround | Vessel turnaround averaging 0.6 days, 21st in the world. | 2025 | Jordan Strategy Forum, from World Bank logistics data |
Why these are citations and not charts. Every figure above is a milestone announcement with a publication date, not a reading from a maintained series. They are not comparable with each other and not comparable across years. The port changed operator in August 2026, which is likely to change what gets disclosed from here. Anyone needing a port or crossing series for a transaction should commission it directly rather than assemble it from these.