A journey to Mecca

16-05-2018

Traditionally, the journey to Makkah was mainly an overland journey using camels as a means of transport. Observance of this custom, in the modern days, has undertaken a few adjustments to accommodate the thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world.

As we all know, that there is no airport in the Holy city of Makkah and most of the pilgrims who travel from far countries arrive Jeddah and from there they move to Makah by road.

In November 2017 the Haramain high-speed trains began to service at 300 kilometres per hour (190 mph), and travelling between Jeddah and Makkah in less than half an hour.

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But travelling by road is strongly observed with an increase of taxies, coaches, Uber and cars  travelling from the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah to the holy city.

At present the journey  takes around 1 hour and 45 minutes, and it is not wrong to say such long route might be exhausting for the travelers who have already traveled miles from their homeland.

The good news is that Saudi Arabian authorities have already started to work on a new  highway that will cut the travel time between the cities of Jeddah and Makkah to 35 minutes. This new highway is indeed a good news for all the pilgrims and it will serve all the Hajj and Umrah Pilgrims, as well as facilitate commute for the residents. 

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The good news is that Saudi Arabian authorities have already started to work on a new  highway that will cut the travel time between the cities of Jeddah and Makkah to 35 minutes. This new highway is indeed a good news for all the pilgrims and it will serve all the Hajj and Umrah Pilgrims, as well as facilitate commute for the residents. 

The new highway will start from the airport in Jeddah and will end on the fourth ring road in Makkah. And its construction will be carried out in four stages. Once complete, the new highway will serve districts in north Jeddah, Obhur, Al-Jawhara Stadium and King Abdullah Economic City.

Next year if the first two process are finished on time construction of this new 72-kilometer-long highway will began.

There are several combination to use MB Crusher machinery in road construction, while effectively leading the highway construction.

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Excavation and Earthworks filling can be easily carried out with MB units, putting excavators and loaders available to good use. Simply by mounting any of the MB Screening buckets inert material at disposal can be sifted, obtaining an homogenous and cleaner material.

MB has two lines of screener: the one for excavators and the one for loaders and skid. Both work thanks to the hydraulic supply given by the machine where mounted, and whit 7 models in the range there will surely be one suitable for any site, in any country, with any material.

Mb Screeners are designed and manufactured with many benefits: the conveyor system to eliminate any friction during material loading, while the flat base makes transport easy. The unique and innovative conical shape of the drum designed to significantly increase the hourly production performance any many more, get in touch with our consultant to find out the full advantages.  

 

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