GUINNESS World Records, a reference book containing a collection of world records, formally presented Almajdouie Logistics a certificate declaring the company had  moved the heaviest object by road freight.

The company had moved a 4,891-tonne evaporator on 22 January of this year and while Guinness World Records acknowledged then it was a world record it was only recently that Alistair Richards, managing director of Guinnes World Records, came over to Dammam to personally hand over the citation to the president of Almajdouie Group, Abdullah Almajdouie, and the group’s vice president for logistics, SI Mustafa. The presentation took place at the Sheraton Hotel and was attended by 500 guests from the logistics industry.

The milestone item was fabricated in Korea, shipped to a port in the Saudi Eastern Region and transported 2 km away to the Ras Al Khair desalination plant. Eight evaporators of similar size and weight are to be shipped to the plant. Five have arrived so far and three will make it there by the end of this year.