Ras Al Khair
Coordinates: 27 ° 27 ′ 20.52 " N , 49 ° 18 ′ 0.72" O Ras Al Khair ( Arabic رأس الخير, DMG Raʾs al-Ḫair , German for example: “The charitable Cape”, until 2011رأس الزور / Raʾs az-Zūr , also Ras az-Zour , Ras Azzour ) is an industrial and port city in Saudi Arabia that is still under construction . It is located in the north-eastern province of Ash-Sharqiyya on the Persian Gulf , around 80 kilometers north of al-Jubail . Minerals such as bauxite and phosphate extracted from the interior of the country are to be processed and shipped there. Other oil-independent industries are also to emerge there as part of a policy of reducing the dependence of the Saudi economy on oil exports . In the long term, they will be replaced by the export of other raw materials and semi-finished products.
Industrial projects
A number of industrial plants are being planned or built: the world's largest vertically integrated aluminum complex with the world's largest aluminum smelter (740,000 tons / year) and rolling mill , which is operated jointly by the state-owned Maʿaden and Alcoa - construction lasted from 2010 to 2016, the The cost was over 10 billion euros; also a plant for the production of fertilizers (3 million tons / year diammonium hydrogen phosphate ), which is to be operated by Maʿaden and Sabic ; Plants for the production of ammonium sulphate , phosphoric acid (1 million tons / year) and sulfuric acid , a large power plant with an output of 2.4 gigawatts and a seawater desalination plant as well as other infrastructures. The first plants were opened in November 2016. The total investment is expected to amount to over 33 billion euros.
Via the North-South Railway and other railway connections to be built, the costs of which are not included in the investment sum of 33 billion euros, the bauxite mines of as-Sabirah , the phosphate deposits of al-Jalamid and the oil refineries of Jubail are to be connected with the processing and port facilities of Ras al-Khair and above are connected to the global market.
In Ras al-Khair, these companies alone are expected to create 12,000 jobs, which are expected to result in tens of thousands more.
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathias Brüggmann: A jewel of the Saudi industry , in: Handelsblatt , November 30, 2016
- ↑ Mohammed al-Sulami: King Salman to open a number of Ras Al-Khair projects today , in: arabnews.com , November 29, 2016.