The Saudi Ports Authority (MAWANI), in order to enhance the direct trade and shipping link between Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world, announced the addition of King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam to its Aladin Express DMCC’s shipping service, Gulf-India Express 2 (GIX2).
The new service will connect Dammam to the ports of Jebel Ali in the UAE, Khalifa Bin Salman in Bahrain, Hamad in Qatar, and Mundra in India every two weeks via the vessel Green Ace, which has a carrying capacity of 1,740 TEUs.
The port, which ranked fourteenth in the World Bank’s Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) for 2021, handled a record 199,609 TEUs last August.
Last December saw global shipping lines such as Pacific International Lines (PIL), Regional Container Lines (RCL), and China United Lines (CUL) start a weekly shipping service from China to King Abdulaziz Port in collaboration with Saudi Global Ports (SGP).
