Ministry of Transport and Logistic Services

The Ministry of Transportation was established in 1372 AH (1953 AD) to oversee all aspects of transport: roads, railways, and ports. In 1975, the Kingdom's ministries and its public institutions went through a reformation process that led to establishing the Saudi ports, the Saudi railways. The ministry have become responsible for planning, designing, constructing and maintaining the roads and the bridges. Later a specialized agency for transport was established for planning and supervising the sectors of land and maritime transport and coordinate between its different means, also, to set the regulations governing various transport sectors and issue the necessary licenses for land and maritime transport activities. In the year 2003, the Ministry of Transportation became the Ministry of Transport.

The authority is responsible for overseeing the operational and safety regulations, the air navigation services and the operations, studying, designing, implementing and maintaining the roads projects outside the cities and the urban areas, along with playing the legislator role to all the transport sectors entities at the Kingdom's airports. It is within the Ministry's obligations to implement and maintain ring roads, bridges, mountain roads projects and upgrade the road services like turning single road to double, in all the kingdom's regions. It is worth mentioning that the Kingdom's airports are 27 airports: five international airports, 12 regional airports, and ten domestic airports, all of which offer all needed services for air travelers.

​In addition to implementing the projects of parkways and the dirt roads that serve populated areas like towns and villages with international standardsthat allow expansion in the future to serve more traffic. Moreover, it is committed to achieving the initiative of connecting the Kingdom with the rest of the world as an international logistics hub to provide effective services to all beneficiaries.​