It is crucial for Jeddah to continue existing as Saudi Arabia’s business center since its port links the East with the West. The second-largest city in Saudi Arabia is Jeddah, and it is also home to the second-largest and one of the busiest ports in the Arab world.

As the greatest exporter of oil in the world, Saudi Arabia can store and export its most valuable resource through this port. Additionally, it manages roughly 65% of the nation’s imports of goods. It serves as the nation’s main Red Sea port.

The Islamic Port of Jeddah has huge warehouses for cargo retention, a shipbuilding and repair yard, and 62 berths, all of which are equipped with cutting-edge technology. The berths can accommodate a wide range of goods, including animals, passengers, bulk grain, containers, and general freight. The port’s total capacity is 130 million tons, divided among its five terminals. The port has around 1700 modern cargo handling equipment.

This port, commonly referred to as Dammam port, is the largest in the Persian Gulf. It also asserts to be the second busiest port in both North Africa and the Middle East. It is only surpassed in terms of operations and capacity by the Islamic Port of Jeddah.

This is the nation’s main port in the Persian Gulf, and it manages a sizable amount of the export services for the oil industry. This port offers a refrigerated cargo terminal, two general cargo terminals, shared container, bulk grain, and first and second container terminals.

This port handles all of Jubail’s commercial cargo, including general, containerized, and bulk goods. This port provides an alternative entry to Saudi Arabia’s regional and worldwide markets, with a capacity of 1 million TEUs per year. Its primary focus is on providing to the business demands of Jubail Industrial City, which also provides access to Riyadh. It’s also only 80 kilometers north of Dammam, the country’s second-largest commercial city.

The general cargo and bulk cargo terminals are equipped with outstanding machineries, such as various grain discharging machines that can discharge 50 to 400 tons per hour, depending on which machine is used. The container terminal at Jubail Commercial Port is similarly well-equipped, with a total berth capacity of 36 million tons.

The port has three main terminals: a container terminal with four berths, a general terminal with eight berths, and a bulk terminal with four berths.