Saudi ports handle 16mln tons of food up to Q3 2022

Saudi ports handle 16mln tons of food up to Q3 2022

Riyadh - The Kingdom is observing this year’s World Food Day at a time when its ports have registered a food throughput of over 16 million tons during the first three quarters of 2022, thereby ensuring a sustained availability and flow of food commodities to local markets while strengthening the nation’s supply chains.

Similarly, ports across Saudi Arabia have unloaded around 3,060,281 cattle heads between January and September of this year, which represents a 3.43% year-on-year growth in comparison to 2,958,919 cattle heads previously.

The Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) has actively contributed to boosting the Kingdom’s food security by streamlining import and export procedures, providing state-of-the-art port warehouses, and automating processes to match the global average in truck turnaround times as part of the Smart Ports initiative, which was launched to accelerate port operations and upgrade customer experience using 5G-enabled cutting edge technologies.

While these achievements are a direct result of various world-class initiatives deployed by Mawani to boost the operational efficiency and competitiveness of national trade hubs alongside revamping its regulatory and legislative environment by overhauling processes and bolstering public-private partnerships in line with the objectives of the National Transport and Logistics Strategy (NTLS) to transform the Kingdom into a global logistics