Year: 2015

King Abdullah Port Takes Sponsorship of Most Important Gathering for Region’s Shipping, Ports and Terminals Industry King Abdullah Port is front-and-center at this year’s TOC ME event, the region and world’s top gathering for the shipping, ports and terminal industry. The region’s newest port, King Abdullah Port,

MSC Maya is the latest of the new supersize container ships to deliver cargo to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia King Abdullah Port, October 2015: The largest vessel in the world, the MSC Maya docked at King Abdullah Port on Wednesday 14 October 2015, making it the latest of the new supersize container ships to […]

King Abdullah Port and NYK Group sign Joint Venture for operating Ro-Ro terminal With an initial capacity of 600,000 CEUs a year over 2 berths King Abdullah Economic City, 6th September 2015: In a step to better serve the growing number of investors in the automotive sector in the Industrial Valley of King Abdullah Economic […]

Agreement was part of Saudi Ports Authority visit to King Abdullah Port KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, September 2015: In response to an invitation from the Secretary General of the Economic Cities Authority (ECA) Mr. Mouhanad Hilal, to the Head of the Saudi Ports Authority (SPA) Dr. Nabil Al Amoudi, a delegation of senior SPA officials […]

Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – Ports Development Company, owner and developer of King Abdullah Port, organized its annual iftar in the presence of all King Abdullah Port community members and partners including Saudi Coast Guards, Saudi Customs, SFDA, Economic Cities Authority, National Container Terminal, Huta Marine Works Ltd and all other parties who work […]

Ports Development Company, owner and developer of King Abdullah Port has signed agreements governing a SAR one billion Islamic bridge financing with Arab National Bank (ANB) and Saudi British Bank (SABB). The agreements come part of investing these funds to speed up the expansion and development of the port’s container terminals, RORO and bulk terminals, […]

Raising capacity to 3 million TEU and hosting vessels for decades to come Ports Development Company, owner and developer of King Abdullah Port, announced the handing over of the fourth berth at King Abdullah Port to National Container Terminal Co. after fulfilling all Saudi coast guards and customs requirements, where the cooperation between governmental agencies […]

King Abdullah Port, owned and developed by Ports Development Company, and Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company, celebrated recently their partnership for Maersk Line to begin operations at King Abdullah Port, where the port will receive its vessels and containers. The celebration was conducted while hosting one of Maersk Line’s largest vessel, measuring […]

King Abdullah Port, owned and developed by Ports Development Co., recently received large equipment constructed by Samsung Engineering, which are 10 giant units as part of the first shipment of a total of 94 units, each at approximately 30 meters length. The received units weigh at an astonishing 20,000 tons, and this handling is considered […]

HE Adm. Awad bin Eid Al- Balawi, Saudi Border Guard Director General, and HE Maj. Gen. Badr bin Hamadi Al- Jabri, chief of Board Guards in Makkah province headed a delegation and conducted a visit to King Abdullah Port, where they were welcomed at the border guards office by HE Brigadier General Saad bin Mohammed […]