Al Majdouie Corporate Building

The contract for construction of a new spacious Al Majdouie Corporate Building was awarded to M/s. Swayeh Co.Ltd., in a contract signing ceremony held on December 16, 2003 at the office of Sheikh Ali Ibrahim Al Majdouie, Chairman of Al Majdouie Group. The contract was signed by Sheikh Ali on behalf of Al Majdouie Group and Sheikh Sulaiman Al Swayeh on behalf of Swayeh Co. Ltd. The construction work is scheduled to be completed in two years. Swayeh Co. is a well-known company in the field of construction and has a good reputation in this region.

The building, located on the highway to King Fahad International Airport, will be in three parts; the administrative building, Hyundai Agency building and main Hyundai Workshop. The administrative building will be 10 stories high, along with two 5-stories lateral buildings. The Hyundai Agency building is to accommodate a showroom and parts division. The Hyundai Workshop will be fully equipped with modern technology to serve after-sales-service.
 

The Birth Rabigh Petrochemical Logistics LLC

Al Majdouie Trading Establishment, Saudi Arabia and The Sumitomo Warehouse Co., Ltd, Japan signed an agreement in Singapore on 14th July, 2007 announcing the partnership for a New Joint Venture Company in the name of Rabigh Petrochemical Logistics LLC (RPL).

Both companies had signed a letter of intent on 16th April, 2006 to work jointly within the GCC countries for In-plant Operations, Warehousing, Container Depot Operation, Road Transportation, Customs Brokerage and Freight Forwarding. Both partners had conducted extensive study and bided for the projects.

By this partnership, the alliance emerged as a solid force to reckon with and succeeded in bagging the largest contract of Rabigh Refining
and Petrochemical Company (PETRORabigh). This project will add substantial contribution to the national growth as more than 600 employees and around 300 drivers (will be provided by Al Majdouie Transport) will be employed to offer comprehensive logistics services for polymer products (approx. 1.6 million ton a year) produced by PETRORabigh. Contract is for the period of 10 years. The services will include in-plant products handling packing operation and procurment of raw materials, warehousing and container terminal, Freight forwarding and Transportation up to Saudi Arabian seaports, in Kingdom trucking and outside trucking, etc. together with possible satellite warehouse operation in the middle east. The operation is expected to be active in second half of 2008.
S.I Mustafa, Vice President (Logistics) of Al Majdouie Group will be the Chief Executive Officer of RPL, Shuichi Iwazawa, General Manager/Chief Operatioon Officer, Akihito Nagata, Dy. General Manager and one more Dy. General Manager of Saudi national will be appointed.

Al Majdouie Trading Establishment, a conglomerate with diversified business interests, established in 1965, is the leader in the field of Supply chain and project management, providing services such as logistics and distribution, transportation, customs clearance and freight forwarding. Apart from these, the other operations are distribution of Hyundai Automobiles, steel industry, Aluminum and Glass factory, Food Industry, Real estate and investment. The group enjoys the backing of over 3,000 motivated employees operating all over the Kingdom and GCC countries.
The Sumitomo Warehouse, a major player in Logistics field, have been accumulating
rich experience for quite long years in warehouse operations, container terminal operations,
international freight forwarding and related global logistics services, in parallel with other
activities to support customer’s Supply Chain Management in countries abroad. Sumitomo
have been reinforcing overseas network by opening more than 50 facilities mainly in China,
South East Asia, Europe and USA, and are confident to offer integrated logistics services with
advanced IT systems.
Driving by the milestones,
RPL is already on its way executing targeted objectives to successfully achieve the goals
within the timeframe.

Al Majdouie Logistics & Distribution (MLD) got “tap on their” back from Nada for their tremendous performance as they have received their consent to increase ten morreefer trailers and five Side Curtain Trailers to the existing contract. With this, the total fleet to serve NADA is increased to more than fifty units.
Within six months of bagging five years’ of 3PL contract from Nada, MLD impressed them with excellent performance. In order to appreciate MLD services, NADA organized a party and invited top executives from Al Majdouie Abdullah Al Majdouie, President, S.I.Mustafa, Vice President (L), Abdullah Rizhan
Ash-shehri, Human Resource Director, Ateeq-ur-Rahman, General Manager (MLD), Syed Burhan, National Operations Manager and Mahboob-ur-Rahman, National Project Supervisor attended the event.
All the executives of MLD have been honored with an excellent trophy by Abdul Mohsin Al Othman, CEO of Al Othman Group and Dr. Sulaiman A. Al Tuwaijri General Manager also arranged a tour of thier facilities. The party was concluded with a delicious lunch.

Impressed with the excellent performance of MLD in carrying out its Five Years of 3PL Contract, Castrol has signed an agreement to increase five more tankers for its services. The agreement was signed by Abdullah Al Majdouie, Al Majdouie Group President and Ian Yarwood,General Manager of Castrol
Abdullah Al Majdouie appreciated the efforts of MLD employees for their excellent performance and bringing laurel to the group.

Yansab Contract
Al Majdouie DeRijke Logistics (MDR) has bagged Five (5) years contract from Yansab, a SABIC affiliate, constructing the largest new production unit for polymers in Yanbu. MDR will provide logistics services including customs clearance to Yansab. Yansab plant, which is expected to start in April, 2008, will produce 1,300,00 tons of
PE and PP. For executing this contract, MDR will have to develop minimum 100,000 sqm , storage area in Yanbu to serve for Yansab’s
overflow product storage. MDR will be recruiting over 250 new employees to execute this contract.

NatPet Contract
MDR has obtained Three (3) years’ contract for supplying logistics services from NatPet, a private company constructing its first
production unit for polymers in Yanbu. NatPet will produce 400,000 tons of PP. Plant is expected to start function by December, 2007.
In near future, MDR is expecting to provide NatPet transportation services of product in bulk to domestic customers. MDR will be
recruiting 66 new employees to execute this contract.

With the above contracts in hand, MDR became the sole logistics supplier for petrochemicals in Yanbu region. Bernard Van Den Wouwer, General Manager of MDR stated that MDR has a solid market share in Jubail area and is working hard to further expand its share. It will become, by far, the largest logistics supplier in the Middle East, with an expected handled volume of Four Million Tons and more than Five Hundred employees by the end of year 2008.
Strong customer relation and good under one-roof solutions sustainthe growth of MDR, said Bernard.

Forty talented students selected from various parts of the Kingdom paid a visit to Al Majdouie Group to get know-how about the business and processes and also to meet the President of Al Majdouie Group Abdullah
Al Majdouie being the famous personality in the Eastern Province. Abdullah Al Majdouie addressed the student in a meeting held in Al Majdouie Towers’ Auditorium explaining them how the group was established by
Shaikh Ali Al Majdouie, Chairman and his tremendous wisdom in business and human relationship. He also spoke about his journey from student to General Manager of Transport Division to the President of the Group. Students asked many queries about his life, about work, the problems he faced and the growth of Hyundai and Abdullah Al Majdouie answered each one of them serenely. Mawhibh Summer Program for Science and Technology and Artificial Intelligence, sponsored by King Abdul Al
Aziz and his companions institute for the gifted, held at Saudi Aramco and conducted by National Talents Center, selected students from various parts of the Kingdom on merit to visit renowned business centers and famous personalities of the Kingdom, said Ali Al Ansari, Program Coordinator.

Children of an orphanage center in
Dammam paid a visit to Al Aryaf
Foods to witness state of the art
facilities and modern equipment
and to get acquainted with the
process of making bakery items.
Maan, Production Manager of Al
Aryaf Foods along with Saud Al
Qahtani shown the facilities to
the children. Mohammed Harb,
General Manager of Al Aryaf
Foods was initially met with the
children and arranged their tour of
the facilities.