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The Eastern Province's non oil economy grew 4.2 per cent year on year through the third quarter of 2024. Khobar sits at the centre of that expansion. New hotel keys are...
Saudi Arabia is spending SAR 2.1 billion to add 12 million tonnes of annual petrochemical export capacity at King Fahd Industrial Port in Yanbu. The new berths are designed to...
Yanbu Industrial City employs between 45,000 and 52,000 personnel across EPC contracting, steel fabrication, and oilfield services. Approximately $4.2 billion in new contracts...
Yanbu Industrial City processes over 400,000 barrels of heavy crude per day through one of the most technically complex refining configurations in the Middle East. The YASREF...
Riyadh's ICT sector employed approximately 186,000 workers as of the third quarter of 2024, a figure that grew 12% year on year. In any other context, that growth rate would...
Riyadh deployed more than $200 billion in construction capital through PIF backed delivery vehicles between 2023 and 2025. That capital built metro lines, poured the...
Dammam's Second and Third Industrial Cities now host close to 500 operational factories across metal fabrication, plastics compounding, and construction materials. Capacity...
King Abdulaziz Port now has the physical capacity to handle 7.5 million TEU per year. In 2023, it processed 2.17 million. The concrete, the cranes, and the automated stacking...
Saudi Aramco awarded more than $25 billion in contracts for the Jafurah, Marjan, and Zuluf field developments in 2024. Seventy percent of the service contractors selected for...
Jeddah Islamic Port handled 5.4 million TEUs in 2024, processing roughly 65% of Saudi Arabia's total containerised import volume. The port is the front door for everything...
Jeddah is adding 7,200 hotel rooms to its pilgrimage hospitality inventory between 2025 and 2027. That is a 39% increase in capacity across a city that already serves as the...
Jeddah Islamic Port processed 4.8 million TEU and handled 12.4 million freight tons of breakbulk cargo in 2024, holding its position as the GCC's largest handler of...
Jubail Industrial City produces 7% of the world's ethylene and 12% of its methanol exports. It is the largest single site petrochemical complex on earth. By almost every...
Jubail Industrial City entered 2026 with fabrication yards running at near capacity, over 45 major turnarounds scheduled across its petrochemical complex, and a project...
King Fahd Industrial Port processed over 70 million metric tons of cargo in 2023, making it the world's largest industrial port by volume. Petrochemical exports accounted for...
The Eastern Province's non oil economy grew 4.2 per cent year on year through the third quarter of 2024. Khobar sits at the centre of that expansion. New hotel keys are...
The international oilfield services firms operating along the Khobar Dammam corridor are caught in a contradiction that defies conventional workforce logic. SLB, Halliburton,...
The Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia is building logistics capacity faster than any corridor in the Gulf. King Abdulaziz Port's Phase 3 expansion is pushing containerised...
Mecca's hotel sector generated 95% occupancy and daily rates above $670 during Ramadan 2024. Then, for months afterwards, that same inventory dropped below 40% occupancy. No...
Mecca processed over 15 million Umrah visitors in 2025 alongside its annual Hajj intake of roughly 2 million pilgrims. The city's retail and foodservice sector earned 60 to 70...
Makkah's real estate transaction volume hit SAR 47.2 billion in 2024. A third of that was concentrated in commercial and hospitality assets clustered around the most...
Medina's hotel inventory has reached 48,000 keys across 195 properties as of 2025. The city needs another 8,000 to 10,000 keys by the end of 2026 to meet projected Umrah...
Medina's date export revenue reached SAR 890 million in 2024. That headline neatly supports Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 diversification story. It is the figure that appears in...
Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport processed 13.2 million passengers in 2024. The terminal expansion completed in 2022 brought capacity to 18 million. Cargo...
Riyadh's ICT sector employed approximately 186,000 workers as of the third quarter of 2024, a figure that grew 12% year on year. In any other context, that growth rate would...
Riyadh deployed more than $200 billion in construction capital through PIF backed delivery vehicles between 2023 and 2025. That capital built metro lines, poured the...
Riyadh now hosts a stock exchange with a market capitalisation exceeding $3 trillion, a sovereign wealth fund deploying tens of billions domestically each year, and a...
Saudi Arabia is spending SAR 2.1 billion to add 12 million tonnes of annual petrochemical export capacity at King Fahd Industrial Port in Yanbu. The new berths are designed to...
Yanbu Industrial City employs between 45,000 and 52,000 personnel across EPC contracting, steel fabrication, and oilfield services. Approximately $4.2 billion in new contracts...
Yanbu Industrial City processes over 400,000 barrels of heavy crude per day through one of the most technically complex refining configurations in the Middle East. The YASREF...
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