The 13,300 sq. m. Cold Storage facility will be designed to handle 8,000 FFEs (Forty Feet Equivalent containers) and 168,000 pallet positions annually at Saudi Arabia’s second-largest port for refrigerated containers (Reefers).
Dammam enjoys a strategic location in more than one way. Several food processing manufacturers in the different industrial zones and residential communities are based around King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam.
The Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) has announced that global freight major Maersk has signed an agreement with property developer Refad to operate a state-of-the-art cold storage facility at King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam.
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