THE Saudi Information Exchange Company (Tabadul) inaugurated the (Truck Appointment System). The event was attended by Minister of Transport Dr. Nabeel Mohamed Al-Amudi, President of Saudi Port Authority Eng. Saad AbdulAziz AlKhalb, and Saudi Customs Governor and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tabadul Ahmed AbdulAziz AlHakbani. Abdul Aziz Abdul Wahab Al Shamsi said the new service, which is part of the services offered by FASAH platform, comes within the digital transformation framework and Saudi Vision 2030. To demonstrate its importance, Al Shamsi pointed out that the time a truck takes for arrival and departure, after it has been loaded with a container, is estimated at 3 hours (180 minutes) and that after the implementation of the new unified system for truck management, it now reached approximately 17 minutes, which is over a 1000% improvement. The CEO of Tabadul, a company specialized in providing innovative solutions, added "the Truck Appointment System will facilitate the export and import procedures at the Kingdom level, the development of Saudi trade, and the growth of import and export on a larger scale. He further added "the implementation of the system linked to the ports will contribute to achieve a 24-hour-7-days a week efficiency for trucks' arrival and departure and reduce the waiting time at port entrances for greater flow in the import and export sector".
