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Dammam truck parking project is 86% complete, set to open within 60 days
A truck parking project on the Dammam-Riyadh highway in Saudi Arabia is 86% complete, and the Eastern Province Municipality plans to open it within 60 days.
The two sites are about 16 kilometres from Dammam’s entrance and cover a total of 330,000 square metres.
Together, they can hold 1,040 trucks.
More than 10,000 truck trips take place daily in the Dammam urban area, creating a need for designated places to wait, including when trucks are barred from entering the city.
A committee involving traffic safety, road security and traffic authorities will manage the sites and organize trucks heading to logistics facilities and King Abdulaziz Port.
The project aims to reduce random roadside parking, ease traffic pressure and improve road safety.
Authorities are also studying other possible truck parking sites at Dammam’s entrances for trucks coming from Jubail and Al Ahsa.
Infrastructure work on two truck parking sites on the Dammam-Riyadh Expressway is 86% complete.
The Eastern Province Municipality plans to open the sites within the next 60 days.
The sites are 16 kilometres from the entrance to Dammam and cover a total of 330,000 square metres.
Together, they will accommodate 1,040 trucks.
The project aims to organise truck traffic and reduce random parking on roads and in residential areas.
- Who
- The Eastern Province Municipality is preparing to open the parking sites. A three-party committee will manage and operate them.
- What
- Two truck parking sites are 86% complete and are expected to open within 60 days.
- When
- The article was published on October 11, 2026; opening is expected within the following 60 days.
- Where
- On the Dammam-Riyadh Expressway, 16 kilometres from the entrance to Dammam.
- Why
- To organise truck movements, reduce random parking and ease traffic pressure at Dammam’s main entrances.
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The project aims to organise the entry and exit of trucks, reduce random parking, ease traffic pressure on the main entrances to Dammam, raise the level of safety for road users and improve traffic flow.
This story does not have a timeline yet.
- Completion
- 86% of infrastructure work
- Expected opening
- Within 60 days
- Number of sites
- 2
- Combined area
- 330,000 square metres
- Combined capacity
- 1,040 trucks
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