{"id":13322,"date":"2020-07-10T12:33:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T09:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/saudi-arabias-dammam-port-handles-record-teus-as-plans-expansion\/13322\/"},"modified":"2020-07-10T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T09:33:31","slug":"saudi-arabias-dammam-port-handles-record-teus-as-plans-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/saudi-arabias-dammam-port-handles-record-teus-as-plans-expansion\/13322\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Dammam Port Handles Record TEUs as Plans Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia marked an important milestone at its King Abdul Aziz Port in Dammam as it works to expand its operations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Global Ports reported that it handled a record of 12,691 TEUs while servicing the <em>Cosco Shipping Aquarius<\/em> in the port on June 24. This set&nbsp;a new record for the highest number of containers&nbsp;on a single vessel handled by Saudi Global Ports along the Eastern Provinces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Operated by Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), the <em>Cosco Shipping Aquarius<\/em> is one of the largest vessels in the world. The ship has a length of 400 meters and can carry up to 19,273 TEUs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/media\/images\/article\/Photos\/Ports\/Cropped\/port king abdul aziz saudi arabia.jpg\" style=\"height:280px;width:500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The current facilities at the King Abdul Aziz Port in Dammam &#8211; file photo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The King Abdul Aziz Port in Dammam is the Kingdom&#039;s main port on the Arabian Gulf and a gateway through which cargo reaches the eastern and central provinces of the Kingdom. It also provides services for the oil industry.<\/p>\n<p>A series of new initiatives was recently announced designed to expand the port&rsquo;s capabilities. In April, SPG said that it would invest $1.9 billion in a 30-year deal to develop and modernize the King Abdul Aziz Port into a mega container hub. The goal is to increase capacity to an annual 7.5 million TEUs, more than double the existing container handling capacity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SGP also recently launched several digitization efforts at the port including integrated transactional, payment, and monitoring activities onto a single online platform for port users. It has also integrated delivery and collection of containers into an appointment system to improve traffic management around the port.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia marked an important milestone at its King Abdul Aziz Port in Dammam as it works to expand its operations.&nbsp; Saudi Global Ports reported that it handled a record of 12,691 TEUs while servicing the Cosco Shipping Aquarius in the port on June 24. This set&nbsp;a new record for the highest number of containers&nbsp;on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[8765,4942,2750,8766,1928,953,2647,947,8764,6247],"class_list":["post-13322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-arabias","tag-dammam","tag-expansion","tag-handles","tag-plans","tag-port","tag-record","tag-saudi","tag-saudi-arabia-damman-record-tes-containers-cosco-shipping-aquarius","tag-teus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/13323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}