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Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) in Saudi Arabia are machine-run stores in which stacker cranes, shuttles, vertical lifts or robots move loads in and out of racking and deliver them to picking stations. This page explains the types Saudi buyers specify, when automation pays, the SASO machinery rules and EN 528 as of 2026, and what drives cost and delivery.
Madinah is a city that moves people first and cargo second, and that shapes its logistics and material handling market. Goods for the industrial city arrive mostly by truck, with Yanbu as the nearest sea gateway. A 2017 Arab News report on the Madinah industrial city put the Yanbu Commercial Port at about 190 km away. The Haramain high-speed line, opened to the public in October 2018, links Madinah with King Abdullah Economic City, Jeddah and Makkah, but it runs as a passenger railway, so plan freight to the city by road.
Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport is run by Tibah Airports under a concession from the General Authority of Civil Aviation. The terminal opened in 2015 with passengers in mind, but cargo is now getting attention. In May 2026 the national carrier's cargo arm and Tibah signed an agreement aimed at improving air cargo operations at the airport, including special shipping rates and incentives to build export activity from Madinah. For urgent spares and light, high-value parts this is worth asking forwarders about, though volumes are still small next to Jeddah.
Demand comes from the factories of the Madinah industrial city developed by MODON, which a 2017 report counted at more than 230 operating or under construction, plus food, packaging and plastics plants across the wider region. Typical purchases are forklifts, pallet racking, pallet trucks, dock levelers and weighing scales for goods-in and dispatch. Trucking and heavy haulage firms serve the long runs to Jeddah, Yanbu and Riyadh, and customs clearance is usually handled at the port of entry rather than in Madinah.
Ask a forklift or racking supplier whether service technicians are based in Madinah or travel from Jeddah, because breakdown response is the real cost of a truck. Check floor loading and fire-protection rules for racking with your landlord and Civil Defense before you order. For a multi-supplier comparison on one specification, use post a requirement.
Madinah is first a city of pilgrimage and visitors, so its industry is concentrated in a planned estate rather than spread through the city. That estate is Madinah Industrial City, run by MODON, the Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones. Dar Al Riyadh lists a MODON project of 28 ready-built factories there, with works dated 2022 to 2024, covering the buildings plus roads, water supply, firefighting and sewage networks. MODON also said in 2024 that two industrial cities in Madinah were among the most attractive in the Kingdom for food and beverage manufacturing in 2023. Inside the city, the other large building sites are tied to hospitality. Knowledge Economic City, in its Islamic World District, is a 6.8 million square metre development, and Marriott announced three hotels there in December 2024. Rua Al Madinah, east of the Prophet's Mosque, was announced in August 2022 on 1.5 million square metres with a target of 47,000 new hotel rooms by 2030.
Madinah has no seaport of its own. Sea cargo normally comes in through the Red Sea at Yanbu, the nearest industrial port, and then moves by truck. In December 2025 Mawani signed a contract with a logistics operator for an integrated logistics centre of 120,490 square metres at Yanbu Commercial Port, worth over SAR 29 million. Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport handles passengers and some goods; in 2023 Arab News reported date-shipment permits issued through it. Argaam reported in 2018 that the airport reached 12 million passengers a year of capacity after a second phase in 2014, with a third phase aimed at 16 million by 2037. The Haramain high-speed railway links Madinah with Jeddah and Makkah, and Knowledge Economic City plans a connection to its station. The line is passenger rail, so freight still travels by road.
MODON handles factory land and ready units in the industrial city. Building permits come through the Madinah municipality, fire and life safety approvals through the General Directorate of Civil Defense, and electricity connections through Saudi Electricity Company. The Prophet's Mosque cooling plant is operated by the General Authority for the Care of the Affairs of the Prophet's Mosque. Medical products need approval from the Saudi Food and Drug Authority. Confirm each current step on the authority's own platform.
Hospitality, facilities and cooling lead demand because of the visitor economy. Healthcare follows, with King Salman Medical City of 1,246 beds. Date packers and food plants buy processing and packaging machinery, and farms supply a date crop that Arab News counted at 8.3 million palms in the province in 2023. Heavy oil, gas and petrochemical demand sits mainly at Yanbu and in the Eastern Province.
