Posted on November 4, 2025
Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT), Saudi Arabia’s national champion terminal operator, and CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, have signed through its fully owned subsidiary CMA Terminals, a Term Sheet for a potential joint venture to build and operate Terminal 4 at Jeddah Islamic Port.
The planned Terminal 4 $450 million investment will deliver a 2.6 million TEU state-of-the-art new infrastructure, advanced handling equipment, and next-generation digital and sustainability capabilities, demonstrating both partners’ shared commitment to operational excellence, modernisation, and customer-centric service at one of the Red Sea’s most strategic ports.
Through this partnership with CMA CGM at T4, RSGT would scale its annual handling capacity up to 8.8 million TEUs and further establishing Jeddah container terminals as the region’s leading economic and logistics hub.
Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, stated: “I am pleased to announce this partnership with RSGT, which represents a new step in the development of Jeddah Islamic Port and supports Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. By combining CMA CGM’s global expertise with RSGT’s local strength, we will contribute to making Jeddah a key logistics gateway on the Red Sea. This investment reflects our confidence in the Kingdom’s long-term ambitions and our commitment to supporting its economic transformation.”
With the new Terminal 4 capable of berthing and operating mega containerships with maximum efficiency, the planned collaboration aims to strengthen service quality and network connectivity for all Saudi customers, to prove and enhance the efficiency of Jeddah port as a central transhipment hub in the Red Sea area through leveraging CMA CGM’s global network with RSGT’s proven operational expertise at Jeddah Islamic Port. It supports the Kingdom’s broader logistics strategy to increase gateway throughput, expand transshipment, and reinforce the Red Sea’s pivotal role along the Europe–Asia–Africa corridor.
