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King Abdul Aziz Port, also known as Dammam Port, is a port in the city of Dammam, Saudi Arabia. It is the largest port in the Persian Gulf, and the third largest and third busiest port in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, after the Jeddah Islamic Port. King Abdul Aziz Port is a major export center for the oil industry, and also a ...
The Dammam–Riyadh line was opened in 1981. Planning for the line started in 1947 with an agreement between King Ibn Saud and ARAMCO to lay a 547 km (340 mi) freight line. Bechtel Construction Company was chosen to build the rail line and a sea port at the eastern end of the line at Dammam, with construction beginning in September 1947.
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. Route map. The SAR North–South Railway line is a 2,750 km (1,709 mi) network of railway lines in central and eastern Saudi Arabia, built and operated by the Saudi Railway Company. The primary line of the network connects the capital of the kingdom, Riyadh, to the border with Jordan at Al Hadithah.
It is the largest inland port in Saudi Arabia. [1] The port is located on off Exit 16 in Al Malaz, adjacent to the Riyadh railway station. [2] Riyadh Dry Port covers an area of 918,639 m 2 and accommodates six 6,480 m 2 warehouses. [3] The port handled 250,000 TEU in 2003, [4] and 500,000 TEU in 2013, [5] recording an 18% growth from 2012 ...
Saudi Landbridge Project. The Saudi Landbridge is a railway line currently under development by the Saudi Railway Company (SAR). [1] The 950 km (594 miles) ‘’Landbridge Line” has been planned to link Jeddah on the Red Sea coast with Riyadh, where it would link up with both the North-South Railway and the lines to Dammam, although no plan ...
It will involve the construction of a 950 km line from Jeddah Islamic Port to Riyadh, and a 115 km line from Dammam to Jubail. [12] [13] North-South line [14] The Gulf Railway project is a propose railway network of 2116 km linking all GCC countries. The length of the track inside Saudi Arabia would be 663 km. [15]
Saudi Ports Authority (MAWANI) (Arabic: الهيئة العامة للموانئ) is a government agency that supervises the ports of Saudi Arabia.It was founded in 1976 as an independent agency of the Prime Minister's office, to bring together the governance and operations of the multiple ports of the country to one office.
The Haramain High Speed Railway (Arabic: قطار الحرمين السريع, romanized: qiṭār al-ḥaramayn as-sarīʿ, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [ɡɪtˤaːr alħarameːn asːariːʕ], abbreviated HHR), is a passenger railway serving the Mecca and Medina provinces in western Saudi Arabia. The 449.2-kilometre-long (279.1 mi) main line ...