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Hotels near airport on alert to welcome pilgrims
Hotels near the airport have been put on alert to receive pilgrims whose flight times have not been confirmed, according to Haj and Umrah Director at King Abdulaziz International Airport Abdulmajeed Al-Afghani.
Haramain Express Train’s first trip set for January
The Haramain Express Train will operate its first trip from Makkah to Madinah in January.
1,000 Jawazat staffers serve pilgrims at 140 counters
The Passports Department (Jawazat) has deployed a thousand officials to serve pilgrims at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. Col. Saad Al-Showshan, senior Jawazat official at KAIA, said the pilgrims are being served at 140 counters at the airport.
85% technical jobs in SEC held by Saudis
By Abdulaziz Ghazawi JEDDAH — The Saudi Electricity Company has reported that 85 percent of engineers and technicians at the company are Saudi. SEC›s Deputy Senior Manager for Human Resources Sulaiman Al-Hibaishi said it is very important for the company to employ ...
Trains to use noise reduction technology
By Abdulaziz Ghazawi JEDDAH — The Haramain Train Project includes noise reduction designs in residential areas, according to a source familiar with the project. The source said the project would be completed in 2017 and operational in 2018. “The testing of the train ...
Strategic water storage project nears completion
Abdulaziz Ghazawi JEDDAH — The National Water Company has completed 66 percent of the strategic water storage project. Jeddah Businesses Director at the NWC Fawaz Bahlas said the project aims to build 21 concrete cisterns to preserve 4 million cubic liters of ...
SRO: Haramain project to be ready by 2016
Abdulaziz Ghazawi Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – Saudi Railways Organization (SRO) President Muhammad Al-Suwaiket said the project linking Makkah to Madinah (Al-Haramain Train Project) will be ready by 2016, while adding: “Only 50 % of the project has been completed so far.” The ...
New Makkah highway to be ready soon: Al-Seraisry
Abdulaziz Ghazawi Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The new Jeddah-Makkah Highway, which runs from the Briman Bridge all the way to Makkah’s Al-Hijrah and Madinah Road intersection would be opened for traffic soon. Though the opening date was not announced, Minister of Transport Jabara ...