What challenges and opportunities is the industry facing as the Kingdom seeks to increase its wheat storage capacity from six months to one year?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Waleed Abdulkareem Elkhereiji, Director-General, Grain Silos & Flour Mills Organisation from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
Articles & Analysis | An underserved market: Making affordable housing attractive to investors from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
One of the biggest domestic issues facing Saudi Arabia at the moment is the supply of affordable housing. It presents both a challenge and an opportunity. It is a challenge because the housing shortfall is substantial and shows little sign of diminishing, but it also presents an opportunity in that a whole new market can be created for...
Articles & Analysis | Key components: Dipping into aluminium smelting to add value from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
Aluminium has not been smelted in Saudi Arabia previously, but the Kingdom is now entering a market neighbouring countries have been active in for some time. A $10.8bn integrated aluminium complex is under development by a joint venture formed in 2009 between Ma’aden and the US’s Alcoa. The complex’s smelter is due to begin...
Articles & Analysis | Road work ahead: Keeping people and goods moving with upgrades and expansions from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
As a crucial transit country for regional vehicular traffic, the government is not neglecting the upgrade and expansion of the domestic road network, despite the high priority placed on the development of a national rail network. Although traffic volumes, particularly for trucks, may dip as a result of the rail expansion, roads are sure to...
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Khalid Al Sultan, Rector, King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
Articles & Analysis | Going organic: The potential of the segment is rapidly becoming apparent from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
Since the Saudi government commissioned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), a sustainable development firm owned by the German government, to build a strategy for developing organic farming in Saudi Arabia in 2005, the subsector has taken an increasingly prominent position in the overall strategy for agriculture. Given...