Saudi Arabia is considering plans to establish an industrial city near Rabigh dedicated to the manufacture of automobiles and their spare parts, a report said.

The intended facility will have a production capacity of 400,000 vehicles a year within the first few years of its operations, Industrial Clusters Program (ICP) president Azzam Shalabi was quoted as saying in the Arab News report.

“The factory will work on the production of spare parts. It will include a higher institute for on-the-job car industry training in addition to several technical and technological services the industry urgently needs,” he said.

“One of the companies, which has expertise, global trademark and distribution and sales networks around the world, has offered to strengthen and enhance its success in the industry by establishing a project in the Kingdom and pipeline its production in the region in addition to exporting its operations,” he added.