Mawani, in advance Mandatory Truck Booking, at Jeddah seaport, Started

Saudi Ports Authority “Mwani”, in collaboration with the Saudi Company for Electronic Information Exchange “Tabadul” and the Emirate of Makkah region, launched the service of booking truck appointments, at Jeddah Islamic Port, as a mandatory procedure, which allows booking an appointment, in advance through the “Fasah” platform, as of November 1.

This will contribute to facilitating the entry and exit procedures for trucks, speeding up customs clearance processes and reducing waiting time.

The Truck Appointment Service raises the efficiency of operation, in ports and improves the productivity of carriers, through smart technical solutions that help reduce container turnover and reduce the need for paper transactions.

In addition,  it made it easier to track and manage fleet of trucks traffic and organize the work of drivers, as well as to work on linking all government agencies concerned, electronically, and cooperating with each other, in the operation and management of this service.

The new service, at Jeddah Islamic Port will reduce truck turnover from 6-hour to 25-minutes, increase working times from 8-hour to 24-hour, besides reducing paperwork by no less than 6-paper to only a single one.

It will also contribute to increasing efficiency by raising the maximum frequency of truck entry into the port from two trips per day, before application of the new system, to more than 6-trip per day.

The new service aims too, to re-engineer and automate procedures, by booking appointments, electronically, enhancing competitiveness of the Saudi ports, in addition to contributing to raising control and applying smart solutions to the electronic gates system, geographic system, and capacity management.

The system will enable the reservation of advance appointments through the Fasah platform, the unified window for import and export operations, in the Kingdom, in order to coordinate, in advance, the transit of trucks at Jeddah Islamic Port, to regulate the movement of these trucks, reduce congestion on roads, leading to the port, and speed up customs clearance procedures.

Reducing gathering and waiting at the ports, which contributes to the smooth movement of truck flows and raising work efficiency, are among other advantages of the new system.

Mawani has earlier announced the launch of the truck appointment booking service, in Jeddah Islamic Port, on a trial basis, in