Saudi Arabia’s Matarat Holding, in collaboration with the National Center for Privatization & PPP (NCP), has announced that 89 leading players in airport construction sector including 55 Saudi companies are in the race to build the Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Qassim.
*The list includes 19 developers, 33 EPC contractors, 13 operators, 11 advisors and nine equity investors as well as three financial institutions.
The big names in the list of developers are: Samsung C&T; Ports Projects Management & Development Co (PPMDC); Tamasuk Holding Company; Makyol İnşaat Sanayi Turizm ve Ticaret; Al Gihaz Holding Company; Alfanar Company; Nesma Infrastructure and Technology Company; Plenary Group; WCT International; Al Bawani; Egis Projects Limited; Mada International Holding; Vision International Investment Company (Vision Invest); Almutlaq Real Estate Investment Company (AREIC); SARH Developments; IC Ictas Insaat Sanayi Ve Ticaret; Kalyon Insaat Sanayi ve Ticaret; Saudi Binladin Group and Lamar Holding.
*The list of EPC contractors joining the race are: SkyBridge; AVICKDN; Saudi Pan Kingdom Company (SAPAC); Fas Energy & Infrastructure; Alghanim International General Trading & Contracting; Abdul Ali Al Ajmi; Technical Development Company for Contracting; China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation; Almansouryah General Contracting; Alfahd company; YDA Insaat Sanayi VE Ticaret; China Harbour Engineering Company; Rowad Modern Engineering; Abdullah Fahad Al Khaledi Company for General Contracting (AFAC) Shade Corporation; Al Ayuni Investment & Contracting; Setec and International Hospitals Construction Company (IHCC).
It also has big Saudi names such as Al Jaber Contracting; Al Yamama Company for Trading & Contracting; Almabani General Contractors as well as Arkad Engineering & Construction Company; Alrawaf Company for Trading and Construction; Abdulrahman Saad Alrashid and Sons; Mistacoglu Holding; Al Jaber Contracting; Mounes Mohamed Al Shayeb For Civil Construction (Mobco); Sateaa Altameer for Real Estate; China State Construction Engineering Corporation; China Construction Excellence Company; Safari Company; Al Sharif Group Holding; Naif Abdul Kareem Alrakhis; Al Yamama Company for Trading & Contracting; Almabani General Contractors; Buna Al Khaleej Contracting.

