16/03/2014
5.5 million tons, the volume of exports in February
Yanbu Port industrial handing 14 million tons of cargo in two months
Yanbu King Fahad industrial port gained, high levels for handling goods and petroleum products during January and February of this year, and handed over 13.7 million tons. The port has handled more than 6.3 million tonnes in February, of various goods and petroleum products, where the total goods imported 764.900 tons, and the total exports 5.5 million tons, and the number of ships to 103 vessels, container number container number 670 marine movements 254. Captain Abdullah Al-zumi, Director General of King Fahad industrial port Yanbu, to harness all the potential and operational efficiency, as well as the absorption capacity of the port facilities to access the best and highest level. In the same context made King Fahad industrial port Yanbu handling 7402582 tons by January 2014, various goods and petroleum products, where the total goods imported 913,545 tons and total exports 6707748 tons.
As the number of ships to 135 the number of container ships and container movements 1,375 Navy 320. On the other hand, King Fahad industrial port Yanbu last delegation of investors visited the General cargo and container terminal in the port of the equipment and the available potential to identify the nature of the work and investment opportunities. The King Fahad industrial port Yanbu handed 92 million tonnes in 2013, of various goods and petroleum products, where the total goods imported 9124872 tons, and exports totaled 83266803 tons. As the number of ships and ship number 1629 18139 container and maritime transactions number 3844. On the other hand finally held a workshop to discuss the development plan for the port of Yanbu, which had been prepared in cooperation with the German Foundation for international cooperation GI7, the engineering of the German port of Hamburg.
The workshop was opened by the Director General of the commercial port of Yanbu in the presence of officials from the Government and private sectors, participants in the study of General Organization of ports. The workshop discussed future plans for the development of the port during the next 20 years and invest all the opportunities and possibilities to increase employment and raise the level of customer service, at the end of the workshop put forward all the relevant points of customer service and are interested in the public and private sectors. Prince Faisal Bin Salman, Governor of Medina was launched in the port of Yanbu industrial and commercial in Yanbu last month, laying the Foundation for a number of development projects and development that was finally completed in the port of Yanbu and King Fahad industrial port with a total value estimated at 2.1 billion.
