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Maersk to open new cold storage facility at King Abdulaziz Port

A.P. Moller – Maersk signed an agreement with Refad Real Estate to operate a brand new cold storage facility at King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

The Danish company  Maersk will open the doors to the facility in March 2023.

The 13,300m² cold storage facility will be designed to handle 8,000 FFEs and 168,000 pallet positions annually at Saudi Arabia’s second-largest port for refrigerated containers.

“Saudi Arabia is a significant market for us. With more than a fifth of the country’s food imports coming through King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam, we wanted to establish a state-of-the-art cold storage facility that will help us serve the food industry better,” said Mohammad Shihab, managing director of Maersk Saudi Arabia.

Furthermore, several food processing manufacturers in the different industrial zones and residential communities are based around King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam. This means that there is manufacturing as well as consumption of food items in and around Dammam.

Moreover, Dammam lies in close proximity to neighbouring Gulf countries like the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, making it an important distribution hub for several markets. At the same time, King Abdulaziz Port is also strongly connected to the hinterland through a robust road and rail network.





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