COASTAL AND TRANSHIPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR SAUDI

Jeremy Brown reports that when current reforms and the easing of Customs restrictions are complete, the Saudi regulatory framework will be more supportive of port trade development and should allow ports to better benefit from their unique trading position. New coastal shipping options and transhipment opportunities can then emerge.

Transhipment of Salalah and Aden in 2001 was estimated at 99% and 87%, and in the Middle East as a whole it was estimated at 75% of total flows. At Jeddah and Dammam it constituted 20% and 25% respectively

Jeremy Brown reports that when current reforms and the easing of Customs restrictions are complete, the Saudi regulatory framework will be more supportive of port trade development and should allow ports to better benefit from their unique trading position. New coastal shipping options and transhipment opportunities can then emerge.