The construction of Ras al-Khair Port, situated in the city of Ras al-Khair, on the coast of the Arabian Gulf, began in 2008. It was inaugurated in 2016. It is located at around eighty km from Jubail Industrial City. It is considered the newest industrial port in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
With an area of approximately twenty-three km, the port serves more than one hundred industrial projects. It is equipped with fourteen berths for receiving ships, a terminal with four facilities, with an estimated capacity of around thirty-five million t.
The significance of Ras al-Khair Port stems from its strategic location in a new industrial zone with a variety of production lines in addition to its direct connection to mines through the railway, thus enabling the export of the companies' products to global markets.
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