The Saudi Information Exchange Company (Tabadul) has launched a truck appointment system as part of its FASAH platform to ease the flow of goods to and from the King AbdulAziz Port in Dammam.
The system is aimed at improving the movement of trucks and their arrival and departure in a smooth and safe manner. It will contribute to improving productivity of port operators and eliminate chaotic traffic pile-ups at city entrances. Furthermore, it will help in transforming paperwork from manual to electronic.
AbdulAziz AbdulWahab Al Shamsi, CEO, Tabadul, said: “The time a truck takes for arrival and departure after it has been loaded with a container, is estimated at 3 hours (180 minutes) and that after the implementation of the new unified system for truck management, it now reached approximately 17 minutes, which is over a 1000% improvement.”
“The truck appointment system will facilitate the export and import procedures at the Kingdom level, the development of Saudi trade, and the growth of import and export on a larger scale. The implementation of the system linked to the ports will contribute to achieve a 24-hour-7-days a week efficiency for trucks’ arrival and departure and reduce the waiting time at port entrances for greater flow in the import and export sector,” he added.
The FASAH platform will provide an electronic access service to the port for customers through the unified system which is linked to the Ministry of Transport, the Public Transport Authority, the Saudi Arabian Border Guards, and the port operators, all of which will be registered in the system. This will allow the carrier to be pre-registered with the company, whether it is a transport company or an individual, after coordinating an appointment with the operators at the port.
