| Planned to complete in 2029, KAEC will cover an area of 168 square kilometers, the same size as Washington DC | King Abdullah Port is located approximately 120km north of Jeddah on the Red Sea Cost |
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| Capable of handling an initial 1 | Here the concrete blocks used are huge — 720 tonnes each |
It is strategically located to serve the East-West transshipment of cargo as well as domestic volumes.
4| A vessel carrying the first shipment of parts for the container cranes berthed in the port | The port will eventually spread across 20 square kilometers and have capacity to handle in excess of 20 million containers per year, making it one of the top 20 container ports in the world |
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| The port began trial operations in September 2013 when commercial vessels started using the first 500m of berth |