Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz thanked Minister of Transport Dr. Jobarah bin Eid Alsraisri and all personnel of the ministry for awarding contracts of all projects approved for the ministry in last year's budget and building roads whose total lengths reached 5800 kilometers. This came in a reply cable by the king to an earlier cable sent by the minister to the king on this subject. In the cable, the minister stated that the number of the projects approved in last year's budget reached 340 with a total cost of 7,900,000,000 riyals.