More than 1,000 new buses have been added to the fleet of buses for pilgrims' transportation during the upcoming Hajj season. “The General Cars Syndicate (GCS), which is made up of 16 transport companies, spent SR800 million to buy new vehicles. They started the upgrading process at the end of last pilgrimage season,†Muhammad Zakaria Al-Jawaharji, acting president of the GCS, told Arab News yesterday. The GCS has made contractual agreements with 66 Hajj delegations from various countries to transport about 1.5 million pilgrims in 18,700 buses, he added. The syndicate will shortly develop a multilingual website on the Internet that will include English, French and Arabic in its first phase and gradually most other languages, the official said.
