Engineer Saleh Al-Jasser, Minister of Transport and Logistics Providers
The Minister of Transport and Logistics, Engineer Saleh Al-Jasser, mentioned that rail transport by way of trendy trains is a necessary pillar for growth and supporting the nationwide economic system by facilitating the motion of commerce and mining, increasing sustainable transport choices to help the logistics sector and the transport motion of individuals and items, enhancing the standard of life, attaining environmental sustainability, sustaining street infrastructure and elevating ranges of visitors security.
He defined in his speech on the opening of the second version of the Saudi Worldwide Railway Exhibition and Convention that these efforts come as an extension of the expansion and growth course of, and are a necessary pillar for attaining transformation in trendy railway transport by means of creating infrastructure, attaining monetary effectivity, bettering buyer expertise and rising the scope of transferring in the direction of attaining the objectives of Saudi Imaginative and prescient 2030, empowering varied sectors and supporting financial development.
He acknowledged that the Saudi Worldwide Railway Exhibition brings collectively an elite group of leaders, specialists and decision-makers from varied international locations of the world to alternate their visions and concepts, and it evaluations probably the most distinguished findings of recent applied sciences within the railway business.
He acknowledged that the yr 2024 witnessed a serious qualitative addition to the railway sector within the Kingdom, by means of the launch of the Riyadh Prepare inside the King Abdulaziz Public Transport Mission, whose variety of customers has exceeded 100 million passengers since its launch within the third quarter of this yr, within the community of the capital, Riyadh, which is taken into account one of many largest prepare networks for transportation inside cities on the earth.