Saudi ports handled 8,317,235 TEU in 2025, up 10.58%, but the total hides a striking split between two Red Sea gateways. DP World's terminal at Jeddah more than doubled its volume to over 1.3 million TEU as shipping lines returned to the corridor and weekly calls rose to 38, while King Abdullah Port, further up the coast, collapsed to just 0.51 million TEU after an 82.7% drop the year before. Carriers are picking winners among Saudi ports rather than lifting all of them together. Inland, the picture is earlier stage than the headlines suggest: a design contract for the roughly 1,500 kilometre, 26.6 billion dollar Saudi Landbridge rail corridor was only awarded in April 2026, and the Riyadh section was still being bid as late as June, so any claim that construction began in December 2025 is not consistent with the public record. This 2026 guide profiles nine providers with the strongest footprint in Saudi Arabia, listed in no particular order, drawn from Tadawul filings, company disclosures and Saudi Press Agency reporting.
How we chose this list
This is an editorial guide, compiled from public sources such as annual reports, company accounts, regulatory filings and trade media, rather than from paid placements or our own directory data. We weighed four things:
- Scale in Saudi Arabia: revenue, sites, fleet and employees based in the country.
- Breadth of services: freight forwarding, contract logistics, haulage, parcels and terminal operations.
- Track record: years operating in Saudi Arabia and publicly verifiable results.
- Network: domestic coverage plus international connections.
Figures are the most recent publicly reported at the time of writing. The companies appear in no particular order. A provider further down the page may well be the better fit for your specific lane or freight type.
The 9 companies at a glance
| Company | Type | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Bahri | Listed shipowner and operator | Saudi Arabia's national shipping line, carrying crude, chemicals and dry bulk |
| SAL Saudi Logistics Services | Listed ground handling and air cargo operator | Ground handling and air freight logistics tied to Saudia's network |
| Red Sea Gateway Terminal | Container terminal operator | The dominant terminal at Jeddah Islamic Port |
| DP World Jeddah | Container terminal operator | The Jeddah terminal that rebounded hardest as Red Sea traffic returned |
| Saudi Global Ports | Container terminal operator | The sole container terminal operator at King Abdulaziz Port, Dammam |
| Almajdouie Logistics | Heavy and project logistics operator | Oversized and project cargo for oil, gas and infrastructure |
| Agility Saudi Arabia | Warehousing and logistics parks | Grade-A contract warehousing near the country's main cargo hubs |
| Saudi Post | National postal and last-mile group | Nationwide delivery, now built around its Naqel Express subsidiary |
| NUPCO | Healthcare logistics and procurement | Centralised procurement, warehousing and distribution for the Saudi healthcare sector |
Bahri
Founded in 1978 and listed on Tadawul, Bahri is anchored by the Public Investment Fund at 22.55% and Saudi Aramco's development arm at 20%, with the rest in free float. It ended June 2026 with a record 107 owned vessels after adding five chemical tankers, and has 12 newbuilds on order through 2030.
Its results have surged on the back of tanker rates: second quarter 2026 net profit reached 2.75 billion riyals, up 574% year on year, on revenue of 6.31 billion, up 156%, taking net debt to EBITDA down to 0.72 times from 2.19. It also launched a bonded zone at Jeddah Islamic Port in July 2026 and signed a memorandum with Red Sea Global the following month.
Best for: crude, chemical and dry bulk shipping through a Tadawul-listed, PIF-anchored national carrier.
SAL Saudi Logistics Services
SAL listed on Tadawul's main market in November 2023 in what was described at the time as the largest Saudi logistics IPO since 2015, floating 30% of its capital at 106 riyals a share. Saudia holds 49%, with the rest split between former partner investment portfolios, restructured in November 2024, and public shareholders.
For 2025 it reported group revenue of 1,708 million riyals, up 5%, and net profit of 698 million, up 6%, at a 42.6% operating margin. Ground handling is the profitable core, at 1,455 million riyals and a 51% margin, while its logistics division ran at a 5.4% operating loss on 252 million of revenue. It is the one company on this list with fully audited public financials to check.
Best for: air cargo and ground handling logistics across Saudi Arabia's airport network.
Red Sea Gateway Terminal
RSGT sits under a tiered ownership structure: its parent, Red Sea Ports Development Company, is 60% owned by the Public Investment Fund and COSCO Shipping Ports jointly with 20% each, while Red Sea Ports Development Company itself is 53% SISCO, 20% City Island Holdings of Malaysia's MMC Corporation, 17% Xenel Industries and 10% LogiPoint. Its build-out across Jeddah's Terminals 1 to 4 targets 8.8 million TEU of capacity with 40 ship-to-shore cranes.
In August 2026 it announced a joint investment with CMA CGM to develop Terminal 4, an initial 434 million US dollars adding up to 2.6 million TEU, following a term sheet signed the previous November. Lars Vang Christensen took over as group chief executive in March 2026, succeeding Jens O. Floe.
Best for: the largest committed container capacity at Jeddah, with a global carrier now co-investing directly.
DP World Jeddah
Operating under a 30 year build-operate-transfer agreement with the port authority, DP World's South Container Terminal at Jeddah completed an 800 million dollar modernisation that lifted capacity from 1.8 million to 4 million TEU, with a further target of 5 million as quay cranes rise from 14 to 22.
The payoff showed up fast: 2025 volume passed 1.3 million TEU, more than double the year before, as weekly service calls rose to 38 with lines returning to the Red Sea corridor. That is the clearest evidence in this whole market of which Saudi terminal carriers are choosing to route through.
Best for: container volumes at Jeddah where recent, measurable throughput growth matters more than headline capacity.
Saudi Global Ports
A partnership of the Public Investment Fund, Singapore's PSA International and Al Blagha Holding for Investments, Saudi Global Ports has run King Abdulaziz Port's container terminals since taking over under a 30 year build-operate-transfer agreement in October 2020. Combined capacity across Terminal 1 and 2 reached 3.8 million TEU in 2025, after passing 10 million cumulative TEU the year before.
It has committed 3.5 billion riyals over five years, including 2 billion for container terminal development, 665 million for multipurpose equipment and 670 million for a logistics park, and has broken ground on a Dammam Integrated Logistics Zone alongside a Terminal 2 berth expansion.
Best for: container access on the Gulf side of Saudi Arabia, through the only operator running Dammam's terminals.
Almajdouie Logistics
Based in Dammam with around 2,000 employees and more than 2,000 pieces of equipment, Almajdouie specialises in the heavy-lift and project logistics that ordinary hauliers turn down, serving oil and gas, water desalination, energy and infrastructure clients. It doubled capacity through the acquisition of Alatas and bought 520 new tractor heads and 150 flatbed trailers, plus 60 axle lines of hydraulic trailers for wind-energy transport.
It finalised a joint venture with CEVA Logistics, part of the CMA CGM group, in October 2024, first announced at Riyadh's inaugural Global Logistics Forum that July. That gives it access to a global freight-forwarding network on top of its own heavy-transport fleet.
Best for: oversized, heavy-lift and project cargo tied to Saudi energy and infrastructure projects.
Agility Saudi Arabia
Agility's Jeddah logistics park, inaugurated in November 2025, represents around 611 million riyals of private investment across 576,760 square metres, with more than 338,000 square metres of built space in six Grade-A warehouses. A further 250 million riyal expansion is adding 100,000 square metres to its existing Riyadh site, which already runs to 871,000 square metres, alongside a 200,000 square metre park at Dammam.
It has also signed a joint venture with ROSHN Group, a Public Investment Fund company, for roughly 650,000 square metres of additional warehousing, though no completion date has been confirmed.
Best for: bonded or contract warehousing near Jeddah, Riyadh or Dammam rather than port-side handling.
Saudi Post
Since a strategy set in motion by a 2017 royal decree, Saudi Post has repositioned itself as a national ground logistics and last-mile operator rather than a traditional mail service, opening the region's largest automated super-sorting centre in Riyadh in 2024 and fully automating e-commerce customs clearance in April 2025. It signed a memorandum with Maersk in July 2025 for e-commerce logistics and an agreement with SAL on air-mail handling that October.
Its express arm, Naqel Express, has been wholly owned by Saudi Post since a full acquisition completed in November 2022, having previously operated as a joint venture with Arabian Hala since 2005. If you have seen recent claims about Naqel's ownership changing, that transaction is several years old, not a current event.
Best for: domestic last-mile and postal-integrated e-commerce delivery across Saudi Arabia.
NUPCO
Wholly owned by the Public Investment Fund, the National Unified Procurement Company runs centralised procurement, warehousing and distribution of medication and medical supplies across the kingdom's healthcare system, a specialist function most general freight companies do not touch.
It secured 2.5 billion riyals in supplier supply-chain financing during 2025 from Banque Saudi Fransi, First Abu Dhabi Bank and Tameed, and has two new warehouses due to become operational during 2026. It belongs on this list as the country's dominant healthcare-logistics specialist rather than as a general-purpose competitor to the others here.
Best for: pharmaceutical and medical supply logistics, rather than general freight.
Names you might expect that are not on this list
A few companies appear in almost every guide to this market but should not, because their situation has changed:
- SMSA Express: Sometimes described as having recently changed hands. We found no evidence of any 2024-2026 ownership change: it has long sat inside SMSA Holding's portfolio of Saudi investments alongside real estate and food-franchise interests, and no transaction date is stated anywhere we could verify.
How to choose between them
The right provider depends less on overall size than on fit with your freight and lane:
- Containers at Jeddah: DP World Jeddah for measured 2025 growth, Red Sea Gateway Terminal for the largest committed capacity.
- Containers at Dammam: Saudi Global Ports, the only operator running King Abdulaziz Port's terminals.
- Shipping and bulk: Bahri for crude, chemical and dry bulk carriage under a PIF-anchored national line.
- Air cargo and last mile: SAL for ground handling tied to Saudia, Saudi Post and Naqel for domestic delivery.
- Project cargo and warehousing: Almajdouie for heavy-lift transport, Agility for Grade-A contract warehousing.
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