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Strategic Partnerships
Project Goals
The King Salman International Complex for Maritime Industries and Services at Ras Al-Khair aims to: • Facilitate and benefit from rapidly growing maritime production in the Kingdom. • Diversify economic income sources. • Build local manufacturing and designing capabilities. • Develop global competitiveness and provide cutting edge products and services in the region.
Profile & Industrial Strategy
The King Salman International Complex for Maritime Industries and Services covers five square kilometers and runs for four kilometers along the eastern coastline of Ras Al-Khair. It is composed of four operational zones comprising seven dry docks and 17 berths.
The Fourth Zone
The First Zone
The Second Zone
The Third Zone
This zone is dedicated to marine works, and has an annual production capacity of 11 fixed offshore platforms and 4 more drilling platforms. The zone comprises a dry dock for building drilling equipment with a lifting capacity of up to 10,000 tons.
Responsible for repairing and maintaining ships and drills. It consists of three dry docks, 12 anchorages and fully equipped workshops for all maintenance and renovation works, with a capacity of over 15 drills and 130 ships a year, including VLCCs.
Responsible for repairing and developing marine support vessels. It has a production capacity of 25 vessels and can repair 115 marine support vessels a year. This zone will comprise nine anchorages in addition to fully equipped workshops for repairing ships.
The Complex’s largest zone handles commercial shipbuilding. It has the capacity to build all kinds of ships using the latest production methods, and comprises three dry docks and six fully equipped anchorages. The annual production capacity is three VLCCs and 15 commercial ships.
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