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Sixteen new piers were constructed at the port as part of the development. In 1975, the port imported 2.486 million tons of goods or about 40% of Saudi Arabia's total imports for that year. Imports through Dammam port reached 14.515 million tons in 1982. A total of 3,228 ships visited the port in 1987, and 7.322 million tons of goods were imported.
Location of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula. The country's command economy is petroleum-based but slowly diversifying; in 2017 58% of budget revenues and 85% of export earnings came from the oil industry.
The A. A. Turki Group of Companies (ATCO) is a Saudi Arabian conglomerate company that operate in diverse industries. The group is made up of several stand alone units. The group covers areas such as automation and control, commercial trading and services, port management and marine services, civil and electromechanical construction, retail services, waste management, chemical cleaning ...
Saudi Aramco dominates much of oil sector in the city, as well as in Saudi Arabia. [14] The company's headquarter is located in the nearby city of Dhahran, which also hosts the Residential Camp of Aramco. First oil well in Saudi Arabia was discovered in Dammam, by which, Saudi Arabia today leads in the global oil and gas industry.
AMHEC was founded in the year 2006. In 2007, the company resumed its operation in the fields of crane rental, heavy equipment rental, transportation and heavy lifting services. In 2017, the company entered the fields of facility management and rig move services, working with contractors such as Saudi Aramco and SABIC. [2]
Saudi Ports Authority (MAWANI) (Arabic: الهيئة العامة للموانئ) is a government agency that supervises the ports of Saudi Arabia.It was founded in 1976 as an independent agency of the Prime Minister's office, to bring together the governance and operations of the multiple ports of the country to one office.
In 1998, Zamil Industrial was formed as a joint-stock company by merging companies that were previously fully owned by their parent company, Zamil Group Holding Company. [6] In 2002, Zamil Industrial Investment Co. became a public company and was listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) under the symbol: 2240.
The airport is located 31 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of downtown Dammam and is named after the former King of Saudi Arabia, Fahd ibn Abdulaziz (1921–2005). The airport serves the entire Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and is one of the four primary international airports in the kingdom.