In the workshop "logistics platform" in Asharqia Chamber yesterday
Officials:
regulatory and legislative developments to enhance the Kingdom Centre in the
logistics services market
Al
Ataishan: No trade or local or global industry can be achieved without professional
logistical support
Al
Romaih: 30 of the world containers traffic pass through Saudi ports, with a
value of $ 3.9 billion
Al Amoudi: logistics services is more than 70%
of the reluctance of Saudi non oil trade
Al
Hagbani: program applied within 24 hours, in the Red Sea Gateway Terminal and
King Abdullah Port
The
Workshop (platform logistics), which was held yesterday Sunday, March 12, 2017 in Asharqia Chamber stressed the importance of
the geographical location of the Kingdom to become an excellent position in the
Middle East and North Africa from the point of logistics services, depending on
the occurrence of the ports on the global trade routes, etc. in
the kingdom of developments on the legislative and regulatory levels in the
transportation and importing and exporting.
The
workshop witnessed the participation of His
Excellency the Head of the Public
Transport Committee Saudi Railways
Organization and Chairman Dr. Rumaih Al Romaih, His Excellency General Organization of Ports
chairman Dr. Nabil Al Amoudi, the Director General of Saudi Customs Ahmed Al Hagbani
The
workshop began with a speech by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Chamber Abdulrahman bin Saleh Al
Ataishan in which he said: It is out of the critical importance
of logistics services, it can not be any trade or domestic industry it was, or
global without logistical support professional achievement, launched our
government partnership with the private sector over the past years towards
expansion the
establishment of ports, roads, airports and railways, which would impact
positively on the movement of goods and products and to increase investment and
employment opportunities in the storage and offloading and so on.
Continued
Al Ataishan saying: in front of what poses the Kingdom's Vision 2030 to
accelerate the pace of transforming the kingdom a global center for logistics,
the hopes pinned on the completion of these infrastructure and increase even
improve in proportion to the objectives set, especially since the promotion and
support of the system of logistics systems effective, regulations and system of
customs works with high efficiency, would
enable the operators of transport system of different types of investment
potentials optimally in serving the national economy.
Al Ataishan said that this workshop as
an opportunity, gathering the public and private sectors and discuss visions
and ideas on the development of our services logistics, starting with the
development of the ports of the Kingdom plan and highlighted the solutions that
will be activated in this regard, through a review of the approach followed by
the Customs Department for the support of the services sector logistics,
and the role of the public transportation Committee in the development of the
sector.
This
workshop also presents the cooperation and communication between Asharqia
Chamber on the one hand and the Ministries of Transportation and of
Economy and Planning and the General Organization of Ports and Customs
Department, within the efforts made by the committees of road transportation, sea transportation,
customs in order to motivate and support the business sector, and we hope that
we all share and enrich this
workshop views and interventions and new ideas.
Under
the headline (About the development of Saudi Arabia logistics sector
initiatives) His Excellency the head of the General Committee of the Saudi Railways Organization
and Chairman Dr. Rumaih Al Romaih stressed that the Kingdom occupies an ideal
location to become a leading center in the Middle East, North and East Africa, as
he Arabian ports are located on the main trade routes, and that the 30%
of the container traffic in the world passes by Saudi ports, with a value of $
3.9 billion, however Kingdom occupies a low ranking in the logistics
performance indicators, but witnessed a retract in this regard in the past few
years, it occupies the 52 position in 2016 after It
was the 37 in 2012 and 49 in 2014, according to World Bank data.
He
added that to achieve the required improvements and excellence in this regard to improve the transportation sector
governance (including public transportation, public Railways Organization, and
the Saudi Company for Railways, the General Civil Aviation Committee, the
General Organization of Ports, Ministry of Finance, and the Department of
Customs) through a
number of initiatives underway at each institution of these institutions and
Committees, such as the integrated planning of transportation infrastructure,
improvement of legislation on services of logistics, and the restructuring and
reform and modernize the rail network, and legislative reform and regulatory
airports, ports, and other initiatives.
Al Romaih pointed
out that the main public sector bodies have cooperated with each other to
identify obstacles and issues that hinder the development of logistics
services, which will achieve the success of the initiatives and absolute at all
stages of the value chain in the import and export operations.
The
Public Transportation Committee and the General Organization of Railways are
committed to supporting the march of the kingdom, launching several initiatives to develop the
organizational structure of the transportation sector, and enhances the
effectiveness of investment and private sector participation in projects and
public transportation services, and adopting the highest safety projects in the public transportation
and ensure availability, and
the adoption of environmental standards and requirements to reduce the output
of the public transportation sector, environmental pollution, and the adoption
of modern technologies in the management and regulation and control of the
public transport sector .. He said that the body through it expects positive
results such as the enhancement of investment and reduce the procedures and
ensure transparency and application systems.
For
the General Organization of Railways, Al Romaih stressed the commitment also in this direction
through the restructuring of the sector and to provide safety standards, and
expansion of the network and the connection between cities and raise the
capacity in the dry
ports, and provide modern technology to track the movement of goods on trains,
and thus expects to support the
logistics sector, and
to increase shipping options, and achieve more efficient transportation sector,
and ease congestion on the roads
As for the General Organization of Railways Al Romaih stressed
the commitment also through the
restructuring of the sector and to provide safety standards, and expansion of
the network and the connection between cities and raising the capacity in the
dry port, and provide modern technology to track the movement of goods on trains,
and therefore expects to support the logistics sector, and
to increase shipping options, and achieve more efficient transportation sector,
and ease congestion on the roads and to achieve excellent services to
customers.
HE
Ports Committee chairman Dr. Nabil Al Amoudi
has said that ports play a key role in advancing the development of logistics
industry in the kingdom, they constitute more than 70% of the reluctance of
Saudi Arabia non oil trade, and that there as the country through optimal exploitation of the future the
geographical location of the Kingdom, as 12% of the volume of global trade passes
the Arabian Gulf, while the Kingdom is located in a strategic location for shipping lines between East and
West on the Red Sea.
He
pointed that the ports are working on restructuring and legislative reform of
the ports through three axes (regulation, trade, and employment), for the
organizational level, the organization has worked on the development of
legislation and the creation of more efficient systems, and the development of
the labor administration very efficiently, and we expect that the enhanced
competitiveness of ports in
global markets with high transparency, and on the commercial level institution
conducting a continuous group of commercial contracts, and is working to improve and activate the logistics business in
the ports, and to increase private sector participation in the operation and
maintenance, and to create an attractive environment for local and
international investors, while at the operational level, the institution has
launched initiatives to reduce the average the
survival of the container and improve the performance of port operations and
raise the level of quality and performance in services.
He
explained that the organization handled in the present time the ports community
management system program in cooperation with the exchange company in order to
streamline operations by improving and automating services that result in
raising the level of efficiency and effectiveness of operations and procedures
and reduce the time required to terminate the proceedings and increase
transparency, dependability and reliability, and reduce cost through raise the level of performance and
efficiency.
Regarding
the program within 24 hours said
Director General of the Customs Department in charge of Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Al Hagbani
that Saudi Customs program is currently applied in the Red Sea Gateway Terminal
and the Port of King Abdullah in Yanbu.
Al
Hagbani said that the program has five dimensions that are the development of
the business environment and a redesign of processes, automation, transparency
and accountability, and effectiveness of resources, noting that the program
aims to reduce the number of required documents for the four documents in English,
of some fines and change some renovation, as It
aims to modernize the early start to the process of customs clearance and the
application of X-rays on the unloading of the ship, and the use of tablet
computers for manual testing and provide notification messages cases
consignment system through electronic link with the operators and government
agencies and stimulate digital trading environment, as well as to identify the performance
indicators, and increasing working hours customs
and the establishment of a unified rooms for X-ray analysis.
Al
Hagbani also said that the interest is committed to supporting the goals of the
ambitious Kingdom for the development of trade and because one of the leading
logistics centers by 2020 become pointing to five of Customs contributions,
namely: reduce the cost of the average import costs from 1710 riyals per
container in 2017 to 1591 riyals in 2020, and reduce the duration of the containers stay in
ports ranging from three days at a minimum, 5 days maximum by 2020, and
increase the percentage of shipments sincere in 24 hours to reach 80% by 2020,
after it was 1% in 2016, in addition to developing and improving the
infrastructure of wild outlets, improve tracking and increased transparency
.. he explained that to achieve these goals, the Saudi customs in cooperation
and coordination with many parties involved in the import and export operations:
ports (11 seaports 0.15- 0.14 airports, dry port and a single), and views of
conformity: (General Committee
for food and
medicine, Saudi standards, Metrology and quality, communications and information
Technology Committee, ministries "interior, trade and investment, the
environment, water, agriculture") and service providers (the exchange
company, shippers, operators of terminals in ports, shipping agents),
and customers who are exporters and importers.
In
a discussion held on the sidelines of the logistics workshop platform
Al
Romaih: New measures aiming to reduce the phenomenon of the commercial covering up in the
public transportation sector
Al
Amoudi: A study to re agents governance system and the system of payment to
regulating the work of the agents with the business sector
Al
Hagbani: The Kingdom is keen to conclude agreements (TIR) for
facilitating trade and transit between the member countries
His
Excellency the head of the Public Transportation Committee HE Dr. Al Rumaih bin Muhammad Al Rumaih during the discussion was
held on the sidelines of a workshop "logistics platform" and headed by
Abdullah AL Majdoui that many of the initiatives that will develop the
transport sector will find its way to implementation during the coming period,
ignoring those initiatives in the locked
drawers and pointing to the work of the team associated with the transportation
office following the progress of work and the stages of implementation, but
pointing periodic following up meetings achievements.
He
explained that the regions of the Kingdom, including a pivotal business and
supports the rest of the country also supports the rest of the business and
initiatives in this field.
Al
Romaih said that the Committee is
working on reducing the phenomenon of commercial covering up in the public
transportation sector, pointing several measures added to the previous ones
will be on the table in the next period.
For his part, the Saudi Ports chairman
HE Dr. Nabil bin Muhammed Al Amoudi talked about the study to restructure the governance
system, and the restructuring of its work because of the many comments received
from the business sector, which has become a concern for their business,
especially with regard to containerized bank security and the security deposit,
and solutions raised
to be a neutral party either within an organization or a separate work on the
organization of business between the business and agents navigation sector,
declaring that the method of payment will be automated in the near future and
after the service ends, after unloading of the goods from the container, where
this service is intended to help achieving
transparency.
And
agreements (TIR) for facilitating trade and transit between the member
countries and their pivotal impact positively on the Kingdom said Director
General of Saudi Customs designate Ahmed Hagbani that the Kingdom is keen on
signing such agreements referring to the workshops will be held this month to
discuss the regulatory actions that explain the mechanism work
in this Convention, which aims to facilitate the system for the business
sector.
Al
Hagbani said that the Customs began two weeks ago to look at the list of
the work about the new system, which aims to reorganize the customs clearance
service for the benefit of the private sector, and benefit from the experiences
of the leading States in this field and also benefit from the technical side, to have an added value to
the business sector.
About
the certificate of conformity explained Al Hagbani that Customs is working with the Committee of specifications and
standards for the development of a mechanism of depending on the certificate of
conformity and the relationship so that the work electronically, referring to
the start of the electronic link between the Customs and the General Committee for Food and Drug Administration,
stressing the continuation of the electronic integration to provide a
service worthy customers Customs.
In
conclusion Al Ataishan honored the spokesmen and the member of the board of directors and chairman of the Land
Transportation Chamber Bandar Al Jabri, and the head of the discussion Mr. Abdullah Al Majdouie.
