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Not part of the NEOM project but Saudi Arabia is all set to build a unique oil-themed amusement park called ‘The Rig’ to boost the country’s scope of adventure tourism. The authorities plan to build it in the middle of the ocean. The country hopes to lure more than nine million travellers per year from around the world once the project is ready.
The NEOM Backbone Railway will provide regional and urban passenger transit and freight transport connecting the key regional areas and facilities such as The LINE linear city, OXAGON industrial city, airports and logistic transfer stations. SEMP was contracted in to NEOM Land Mobility (NLM) to provide Systems Engineering and System Assurance (SESA) services. The project is currently at the concept design phase.
NEOM, as part of its sustainability objectives, has recently announced Topian as its new food company. The company plans to focus on developing sustainable and innovative food solutions across five vertical pillars that include climate-proof agriculture, regenerative aquaculture, novel foods, personalized nutrition, sustainable food supply, and ESG. These efforts are aimed at supporting Saudi Arabia‘s Vision 2030, which aims to achieve food security, mitigate the effects of climate change, and attain net-zero emissions by 2060.
NEOM received prequalification applications from companies in December for a contract to design and build a seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant. The planned water desalination plant will have a capacity of 150,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d).
Flying taxis are expected to be used in Saudi Arabia's major tourist sites and developments in the next years as the kingdom presses forward with its modernisation plans. The flying taxi will enter the market by 2026, and will be used in major protects such as the futuristic city of NEOM and the historic tourist site AlUla, Saudia Airlines announced on Monday.
NEOM has awarded a contract worth 20 billion riyals ($5 billion) to Italian firm WeBuild, to construct multiple dams at its TROJENA mountain resort. According to a report from MEED, the project will create an artificial lake at the centre of the development, with the main dam to be constructed at a height of 145 metres and 475 metres long at its crest.
Kalbod Design Studio, an Iran-based architecture studio, has released its concept for the NEOM Airport City in Saudi Arabia, an airport that would serve the planned urban area of NEOM. While the area already has an airport, NEOM Bay Airport (NUM), the country plans to build another, NEOM International Airport (NIA), with Dallas, Texas, the United States (US)-based infrastructure consulting firm winning the contract to manage the project of NIA in March 2023.
The 10 regions that will make up the NEOM mega project in the northwest of Saudi Arabia have now been announced, including an "upside-down skyscraper" and mirrored linear city THE LINE. Here we look at all 10. Originally clouded in mystery, details of the planned NEOM mega-development in northwest Saudi Arabia are now becoming clearer following a series of announcements over the past year.
Font Size From sea turtles to sooty falcons, dugongs to dolphins, Saudi Arabia’s NEOM is working to unlock the secrets of its unique underwater world and swell the population of rare species and sea life at the futuristic $500 billion mega business and tourism project.
Officials behind the northwest Saudi megacity NEOM development have unveiled Aquellum, a luxury and experiential mountain visitor complex. The project, announced on Wednesday by its board of directors, is the latest addition to the multibillion-dollar ongoing regional development scheme.
NEOM has announced the Norlana town, its ninth region, on the Gulf of Aqaba, in the northwest of the country. Designed by 10 Design, the coastal town will be a part of a cluster of four other tourist developments planned to be built on the Gulf (Utah, Leyja, Epicon, and Siranna) and will host 3,000, with 700 apartments and two hotels.
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