The Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) and Saudi Company for Exchanging Digital Information (Tabadul) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop Saudi ports management system. 

 

This is part of their endeavour to lead the change for the future of commercial movement and guarantee competitiveness and realise sustainable growth at Saudi ports, a Saudi Press Agency (SPA) report said.

 

The MoU aims at expanding and doubling services provided at Saudi ports from their current number of 46 to 150; empowering modern and emerging technologies according to the best international practices, mainly technologies related to geographical borders and the Internet of Things; and providing safe, quick and advanced services to beneficiaries in the fields of payments and billing with the use of the latest applications in FinTech.

 

Re-engineering procedures

The memorandum also stipulates re-engineering procedures and operations at Saudi ports, ensuring the level of its conformity to international standards, enhancing their connection to global ports, facilitating the application of smart gates and applying modern emerging technologies that are directly and indirectly related to the Saudi ports management systems.

 

This is part of the Smart Ports initiative that Mawani has launched to apply modern and advanced automation technologies in a way that realises plans for digital transformation in the logistical sector, in line with the goals of the National Transport and Logistics Strategy to propel the status of Saudi Arabia as a global logistical hub and a gateway to three continents.

 

Mawani, through the initiative that was launched in the first quarter of 2022, also seeks to enhance its contributions in realising the targets of the Saudi Vision 2030 towards a prosperous digital economy through speeding up and enabling 5G technologies in the logistical sector, enhancing cooperation in offering ICT services, activating the approach of innovation, research and development in a way that makes Saudi ports at the top of applying modern technologies and harnesses its competitiveness at the regional and international levels in terms of trading goods and serving importers and exporters.-- TradeArabia News Service