A series of contracts Dammam-based Almajdouie Logistics Company (MLC) implemented in recent months reinforces its role as a significant player from Saudi Arabia in its area of speciality.

MLC’s sphere of influence has spread beyond the kingdom’s shores as the projects it has completed speak of high responsibilities entrusted to it in various Gulf states by leading EPC contractors.

Hermanto: expanding footprint

And notwithstanding the “perplexing economies” the region is beset with, MLC presents itself as a vibrant powerhouse in its field, says Dudi Hermanto, the company’s general manager for logistics business development.

“We’re strengthening our position in the region, especially with the strategic increase in projects,” said Hermanto. “Not only have our scopes amplified across the Gulf, we are expanding our office presence,” MLC offices outside Saudi Arabia are located in Kuwait, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain  and  plans exist to have additional ones in Oman and Qatar.

Hermanto presented some specific instances where MLC was requisitioned to perform crucial logistics tasks.

It won a contract that made it lead transporter for the Samac project which is being executed by CTCI Arabia. Sabic awarded CTCI the complete package for its methyl methacrylate (PMMA) plant in Jubail, Eastern Province. Samac, the Saudi Methacrylates Company, is constructing the plant which will have annual capacity of 250,000 tonnes. It is a joint venture equally owned by Sabic and Mitsubishi Rayon.

The plant is to be commissioned in early 2017.

In Abu Dhabi, MLC was awarded what it described as large-scope work of supplying self-propelled modular transporter (SPMT) equipment and operational personnel for multiple roll-off operations on the Upper Zakum Island Surface Facilities Project, an undertaking of Zakum Development Company (Zadco).  The island is the second largest offshore oilfield and fourth largest oilfield in the world. 

“We are thrilled to have commissioned this project as it was our first execution of heavy loads on an island,” said Hermanto.

In Kuwait, MLC handled a job for JGSK in the Clean Fuel Project that involved the delivery of a cold high pressure separator and a KO drum, weighing 202 tonnes and 57 tonnes respectively, from Shuaibah Port to the greenfield project site.