This will enhance the port’s infrastructure and operating capabilities and enable logistical efficiency
The Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani), in partnership with internationally recognized and award-winning planning real estate company LogiPoint (a subsidiary of Saudi Industrial Services Co. – SISCO), will build two new warehousing complexes on a 43,000sqm site in the Bonded and Re-Export Zone at Jeddah Islamic Port with an investment exceeding SAR150mn (US$ 40mn).
This will enhance the port’s infrastructure and operating capabilities, expand capacity, and enable logistical efficiency. This project represents the first phase in LogiPoint’s ongoing infrastructure development plan worth SAR 400mn (US$ 106.64mn) over the next two years.
Village V is a state-of-the-art multi-purpose 24,500sqm warehousing complex with dedicated zones for handling frozen, chilled, ambient, and dry cargo. Warehouse Village V also introduces a LogiPoint first with a dedicated zone designed and equipped to handle pharmaceutical goods inside Jeddah Islamic Port.
Value-added Zone
Additionally, the Value-Added Zone will enable LogiPoint to extend their time-tested and much-in-demand labelling, re-packing, and consolidation services to their clients, allowing it to operate as a truly transformative planning hub for the region.
Built-to-Suit facility which has been designed to the specifications of Aramex, the world’s leading provider of comprehensive planning and transportation solutions. The company offers its customers innovative services and solutions, including international and domestic express delivery, freight-forwarding, and integrated planning and supply chain management.
LogiPoint designed the two complexes as per global planning infrastructure standards and deploys best- in-class green building technologies and practices. Renewable energy will be harnessed to power the facility while LED lighting systems and effective waste management will lower consumption levels and reduce carbon footprint.
Logistics Centre of Excellence
The latest projects are set to boost the port’s status as an international planning center of excellence, which reflects Mawani’s and LogiPoint’s ongoing strategy to position Saudi Arabia as a global planning hub as per the objectives of the National Transport and Logistics Strategy (NTLS) and Vision 2030.
Jeddah Islamic Port is Saudi Arabia’s leader in maritime trading, transshipment, and re-exporting activity. With 62 berths and four terminals, the 12.5sqkm. port has an annual throughput of over 130mn tons.
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