03/02/2015
During the next week in Dammam and Jubail
East Chamber organizes The Saudi British Energy Week events
EastChamberorganizein cooperation with theBritishTrade Officein the coming weekThe(Saudi BritishEnergy Week),whichiswidening thetwo meetingsbetween businessmenheld inthe eastern regionwith a delegation ofBritish businessmen,visitingthe eastern regionat the moment.
He saidthe Secretary General ofthe EastRoomAbdulrahman binAbdullahAlwabil thatTheBritisheconomic delegationduringEnergy Weekprogramis dividedbetweenDammam andJubail,where he will meetmembers of the delegationon Tuesdaymorning10/2/2015number ofbusinessmenin the eastern region,andwillbemeetingat the headquarters ofthe mainroomin Dammam,withthe samedelegationwill meetonThursday, 12/2/2015another groupofbusinessmen inJubailprovince,the headquarters ofthe Chamber's branchin Jubail Industrial City.
Alwabilpointed out that theBritish delegationincludes a number ofbusinessprofessionalsin the energy, oil and gas, power generationfields, construction,marine services,advanced engineering, consulting andtraining.
It is noteworthy thatthe KingdomassociatedwithBritain'seconomic and traderelationsstrong,made itone of the mostmajor trading partnersof the Kingdom,in terms of economicand trade relationsbetween the two countriesfor manyof theagreementsare subject to, first and foremost, "an agreement to avoiddouble taxationandpreventtax evasion," wherethe Saudi BritishBusiness Councilcontributes significantly tostrengthen theserelations..trade between theKingdom of SaudiArabia, the UnitedKingdomandthe size ofthe market reached27.7billion Saudi riyals,2013.
SaudiexportsamountedtoBritainin 2013about11683SRmillion, representing0.8% of the totalSaudiexportsto the worldthe value,in the same year, the most importantof Saudi exportsarecrudeand productspetroleum oils,polyethylene, high-densitypolyethylene,polypropylenelowPEdensity,propane(PP),polypropylene,and other goods..on the other handthe value ofimports ofSaudi ArabiafromBritainin 2013, about16043SRmillion, representing2.5% ofthe total value ofthe Kingdom's importsfromthe world,in the same year,includetheseimports,many productsincludingairplanes, automobiles,medicinesand so on.
