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The project was scheduled to be completed by 2014. Among other projects a residential village for the MAADEN employees was built with 500 housing units. [6] The King Salman Global Maritime Industries Complex is under construction in Ras Al-Khair, and will be the largest shipyard in the world when it is completed. [7]
The King Salman Global Maritime Industries Complex is a shipyard in Ras Al-Khair, Saudi Arabia that is under construction and planned to open in late 2018. Upon completion, it will be the largest shipyard in the world. [1]
The mission of the RCJY is to: "Plan, promote, develop and manage Petrochemicals and Energy intensive industrial cities through successful customer focus and partnerships with investors, employees, communities and other stakeholders." These industrial cities are Jubail, Yanbu, Ras Al-Khair and the newest project Jazan. [3]
The Ras Al-Khair Power and Desalination Plant is a power and desalination plant located in Ras Al-Khair on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia. It is operated by the Saline Water Conversion Corporation of Saudi Arabia. The plant began operating in April 2014 and, as of January 2017, is the world's largest hybrid water desalination plant.
The operation on the 1,392 kilometres (865 mi) long freight part of the project connecting Al-Haditha and Jalamid with the new port city Ras Al-Khair was started in Jan 2015. [3] An 85 km link is planned which would connect the North–South railway with the port at Jubail. [4]
The world's largest desalination plant is located in Saudi Arabia (Ras Al-Khair Power and Desalination Plant) with a capacity of 1,401,000 cubic meters per day. [41] Desalination is currently expensive compared to most alternative sources of water, and only a very small fraction of total human use is satisfied by desalination. [42]
In 2013, the unit completed construction of Saudi Arabia's first aluminum smelter in Ras Al-Khair, [138] the Daunia coal mine in Queensland, Australia, [140] and the expansion of the Kooragang Coal Terminal in Port Waratah in Australia, increasing capacity to 145 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa). [141]
However, the Saudi government changed its approach and decided to procure its plant in Ras al-Khair and other plants from contractors and to operate them through SWCC, as it had been the case before IWPPs were introduced. Ras Al-Khair was opened in 2014 as the largest desalination plant in the world, built at a cost of $7.2 billion. [40]