Riyadh Dry Port is a dry port in the as-Sinaiyah neighborhood of Riyadh , Saudi Arabia. It is the largest inland port in Saudi Arabia. The port is located on off Exit 16 in Al Malaz, adjacent to the Riyadh railway station . Riyadh Dry Port covers an area of 918,639 m and accommodates six 6,480 m warehouses.
14-652: The port handled 250,000 TEU in 2003, and 500,000 TEU in 2013, recording an 18% growth from 2012. Riyadh Dry Port handled 26,000 TEU in May 2013, and 30,749 TEU in May 2014. On 5 June 2014, handled a record 987 containers in a single day. Riyadh Dry Port was established in 1982. The port was initially operated by the Saudi Railways Organization (SRO), which also operates the cargo line and manages empty container yards in Dammam. SRO later decided to privatize
28-629: A combination is within the limits of national road regulations in many countries, requiring no special permission. As some road regulations allow longer trucks, there are also variations of the standard 40-foot container; in Europe and most other places a container of 45 feet (13.72 m) may be pulled as a trailer. Containers with a length of 48 feet (14.63 m) or 53 feet (16.15 m) are restricted to road and rail transport in North America. Although longer than 40 feet, these variants are put in
42-481: A consignment at the port. Twenty-foot equivalent unit The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu ) is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports . It is based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container , a standard-sized metal box that can be easily transferred between different modes of transportation, such as ships, trains, and trucks. The standard intermodal container
56-477: A maximum weight of 67,200 pounds (30,500 kg), an empty weight of 5,290 pounds (2,400 kg), and a net load of 61,910 pounds (28,080 kg). Tare weight Tare weight / ˈ t ɛər / , sometimes called unladen weight , is the weight of an empty vehicle or container. By subtracting tare weight from gross weight ( laden weight ), one can determine the weight of the goods carried or contained (the net weight ). The word tare originates from
70-448: A volume range of 680 to 1,520 cubic feet (19 to 43 m ) for one TEU. While the TEU is not itself a measure of mass, some conclusions can be drawn about the maximum mass that a TEU can represent. The maximum gross mass for a 20-foot (6.1 m) dry cargo container is 24,000 kilograms (53,000 lb). Subtracting the tare mass of the container itself, the maximum amount of cargo per TEU
84-440: Is 19 feet 10.5 inches (6.058 m) long and eight feet (2.44 m) wide. The height of such containers is most commonly 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) but ranges from 4 feet 3 inches (1.30 m) to 9 feet 6 inches (2.90 m). Another standard container is slightly more than twice as long: 40-foot (12.19 m), dubbed a forty-foot equivalent unit (often FEU or feu ). The reason
98-547: Is defined as two TEU. It is common to designate a 45-foot (13.7 m) container as 2 TEU, rather than 2.25 TEU. The most common twenty-foot container occupies a space 20 feet (6.1 m) long, 8 feet (2.44 m) wide, and 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) high, with an allowance externally for the corner castings ; the internal volume is 1,172 cubic feet (33.2 m ). However, both 9-foot-6-inch-tall (2.90 m) High cube and 4-foot-3-inch (1.30 m) half height containers are also reckoned as 1 TEU. This gives
112-465: Is reduced to about 21,600 kilograms (47,600 lb). Similarly, the maximum gross mass for a 40-foot (12.2 m) dry cargo container (including the 9-foot-6-inch (2.90 m) High cube container) is 30,480 kilograms (67,200 lb). After correcting for tare weight, this gives a cargo capacity of 26,500 kilograms (58,400 lb). Twenty-foot "heavy tested" containers are available for heavy goods such as heavy machinery. These containers allow
126-475: The Middle French word tare 'wastage in goods, deficiency, imperfection' (15th c. ), from Italian tara , from Arabic طرح ṭarḥ , lit. 'thing deducted or rejected', from taraha 'to reject'. This can be useful in computing the cost of the goods carried for purposes of taxation or for tolls related to barge, rail, road, or other traffic, especially where the toll will vary with
140-697: The SRO regarding BIG's port operations, after the clearance of 7,000 goods faced disruptions over a 45-day period. On 3 April 2013, Navis announced that it had completed the deployment of the Navis SPARCS N4 terminal operating system (TOS) at the port. The port also installed SAP enterprise application software making Riyadh the fifth port in the world to run a combination of the SPARCS N4 V2.2, XPS and ECN4 NAVIS modules. In December 2016, customs authorities discovered nearly 5 kg of hashish hidden inside
154-583: The port's operations. BAAS International Group (BIG) won a 10-year contract to handle operations at Riyadh Dry Port in 2011. In May 2012, Musaid Al-Sayyari, the Head of the National Committee for Customs Clearance (NCCC) at the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry, stated that "poor operation of the dry port [had] caused enormous damage to the goods". Customs brokers filed complaints with
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#1732783727482168-499: The same class of forty-foot equivalent units. The carrying capacity of a ship is usually measured by mass (the deadweight tonnage ) or by volume (the net register tonnage ). Deadweight tonnage is generally measured now in metric tons ( tonnes ). Register tons are measured in cu. ft, with one register ton equivalent to 100 cubic feet (2.83 m ). As the TEU is an inexact unit, it cannot be converted precisely into other units. The related unit forty-foot equivalent unit , however,
182-403: The smaller container is 1.5 inches short of 20 feet is to allow it to be stacked efficiently with 40-foot containers. The twistlocks on a ship are set so that two standard 20-foot containers have a gap of three inches, allowing a single 40-foot container to fit precisely on top. The 40-foot containers have found wider acceptance, as they can be pulled by semi-trailer trucks . The length of such
196-470: The value of the goods carried ( e.g. , tolls on the Erie Canal ). Tare weight is often published upon the sides of railway cars and transport vehicles to facilitate the computation of the load carried. Tare weight is also used in body composition assessment when doing underwater weighing. Tare weight is accounted for in kitchen scales, analytical (scientific) and other weighing scales which include
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