RIYADH: “Thanks to the use of technology and artificial intelligence,” a top minister said, Saudi Arabia’s transport and logistics sector is undergoing a major global and regional change.
The minister of Transport and Logistics, Saleh Al-Jasser, said at the fifth Smart Transport, Infrastructure, and Logistics Exhibition and Conference for the Middle East and Africa in Cairo that these changes are meant to make things run more smoothly, help with long-term growth, and boost national economies.
Al-Jasser said that a large set of structural reforms and governmental changes are needed to keep up with the fast changes in this important industry.
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The minister told SPA that the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 was to make it a global logistics hub for economic diversification and to make towns in Saudi Arabia better places to live.
The minister also talked about the goal of the National Transport and Logistics Strategy, which is to double the sector’s input to the GDP. This would make the Kingdom one of the top ten countries in the Logistics Performance Index.
Increasing the share of public transportation to more than 15% of all trips and lowering carbon emissions from the sector by 2% per person per year are also part of the plan.
Furthermore, Al-Jasser said that the strategy’s goals include making airports able to handle more than 330 million passengers per year, ports able to handle 40 million containers per year, and transportation ways safer.
Furthermore, he said that to reach these goals, we needed modern technology, alternative fuels, vehicles that are better for the earth, and shared transportation.
Autonomous mobility technology is just starting to be used in the Kingdom’s transportation system.
With sustainable transportation systems in mind, big projects like the NEOM urban area and Red Sea Global offer self-driving options like air taxis, volocopters, and self-driving pods for moving people and delivering things.
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Supported by the Public Investment Fund The Helicopter Co. completely built a rotor ecosystem from scratch and offers private charters, building, filming, and surveying.
Arab transport ministers and 300 specialized transport companies from 50 countries joined the conference, which was opened by Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly.
Source : arabnews.com