Mawani Requires Using Pallets, in Stowage of Imported Goods

Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) issued a decision requiring cargo owners to use pallets, in stowage of imported goods to the Kingdom, through containers, as of March 1, 2022.

The aim is to contribute to facilitating the pace of port work, accelerating operations, and developing services, in accordance with globally recognized standards and levels.

Mawani stressed the importance of stowing goods, inside all containers coming to the ports of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and placing them on the pallets for shipping, in a manner that achieves ease of handling, with specialized mechanical equipment, which would positively reflected on the operational processes, inside the ports, ensuring the speed of their customs clearance, and improving the customer experience for handling containers’ goods, at the ports, facilitating trade, in addition to avoiding damage to the goods inside those containers.

Mawani excluded some goods from the decision, including: dry or liquid bulk materials that are loaded directly on their means of transport, such as wheat, grains, cement, gypsum, petroleum materials, and others, as well as raw materials that come, in jumbo bags, with large weights, difficult to place on pallets, heavy machinery and equipment, production lines, generators, and machinery.

Also, excluded are metal products that come in the form of large rolls, coils or flats, and materials that are difficult to load on pallets, such as insulators, cardboard paper, carpets and the like, in addition to iron skewers, large pipes, scaffolding and the like, as well as furniture and furnishings, in general, and pneumatic external tires, marble, rough stones and granite.

Mawani revealed that it will continuously review the excluded goods, to update and announce them, in coordination with the relevant authorities, confirming that it will take all legal measures against non-compliant owners of goods.