Having made a mark in the transportation of a variety of goods across the length and breadth of Saudi Arabia and as operator of one of the largest and most modern terminals in the Middle East, Al Rashed Transport is confident that the best is still to come.

The company is investing what marketing and contracts manager Syed Arshad Hussain Qazi says is a considerable amount towards enlarging the fleet, strengthening the infrastructure and developing systems.
Already, as a first step towards utilising the investment, the company has begun recruiting manpower and sourcing equipment.
Both manpower and equipment are essential if Al Rashed Transport has to meet the growing demand for its services.
“Our 2009 plan is to have a fleet of more than 1,000 trucks working not only in Saudi Arabia but in other GCC states as well – all helping to serve customers to their highest satisfaction,” said Syed Arshad.
The official noted that the demand-supply situation was marked by the daily rise in the prices of consumables and spare parts, as a result of which transportation rates were skyrocketing.
Notwithstanding the price situation, Al Rashed is busy fulfilling orders. It has been serving clients in industries ranging from glass to fuel, petrochemicals, cement, paper and electronics.
The company, whose motto reads: “Your progress on our wheels,” is full of  sense of responsibility.
Its transport terminal measures some 190,000 sq m and is equipped with the latest technology. Al Rashed Transport is based in Dammam, and has branches in Riyadh, Jeddah, Yanbu Qaassim, Jizan and Tabuk as well as many satellite workshops across Saudi Arabia.
Its fleet comprises more than 750 latest-model tractor heads and more than 950 attachments such as flatbed trailers for general cargo hauling, lowbed trailers for heavy equipment and oversized cargo hauling, pipe dolly trailers for pipe hauling and curtainside trailers for weather-sensitive cargo.
Other attachments are bulkers for cement and powdered cargo, tankers for fuel, chemicals and water; dumpers for aggregates and many medium- and small-sized vehicles for less-than-a-truck-load jobs.

Year 2007
The year witnessed many positive events, one the company would like to treat as a benchmark for the future. It was a good year with many records in terms of revenue, fleet size, geographical reach and other factors.
In fact the orders were thick in coming but Al Rashed Transport could not accept all of them because of a shortage of manpower when it was needed most, said Syed Arshad.
During the year the company entered a new line of business. It signed a logistics support contract with Aramex by providing 20 units of curtainside trailers for express cargo handling within the kingdom. A big contact with Sabic was also signed for a period of three years to provide about 40 trucks per day for hauling petrochemical products within the country and abroad.
United Sugar Company of the Savola Group extended a contract for another two years.
Currently the company is carrying out pipe dolly jobs for the SWCC–Shoaiba Phase 3 Water Transmission project 350 km; Nayyim project, 106 km; OHTL project, Shoaiba to Makkah, 112 km, and the MSTC Khuraise project, 208 km.
For the future, the company expects to be involved in the Eastern Province water transmission system-Phase 2 of 132 km and the water transmission system to the villages of Hail.
Syed Arshad foresees a niche market in the pipe hauling services as there is a lot of potential in the sector considering that projects have been unveiled by Aramco, SWCC and the Royal Commission.