How many logistics and customs clearance companies are in Makkah?
Logistics services, customs clearance, freight forwarding and transport brokers. Figures for Makkah, compared with the rest of the Kingdom.
1,654
active registrations in Makkah — 4th among Saudi cities.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
Makkah has 1,654 active commercial registrations listing logistics, customs & freight forwarding activities as of 16 September 2026 — 5.8% of the Kingdom's total and the 4th-most of any city.
Logistics, customs & freight forwarding account for 2.3% of Makkah's classified registrations, 1.2× their share nationally — a city where the sector is unusually concentrated.
Across the Makkah region as a whole there are 7,086.
- Logistics, customs & freight forwarding in Makkah
- 1,654
- 5.8% of the Kingdom
- City rank
- 4 of 69
- Cities with registrations in the sector
- Concentration
- 1.2×
- Above the national average
- Nationally
- 28,538
- 2% of classified registrations
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How many logistics and customs clearance companies are there in Makkah?
1,654 active commercial registrations in Makkah list logistics, customs & freight forwarding activities as of 16 September 2026 (Ministry of Commerce data).
How does Makkah compare with other cities?
Makkah ranks 4th of 69 cities for logistics and customs clearance companies, with 5.8% of the national total.
How do I set up in logistics, customs & freight forwarding in Makkah?
Confirm the activity code and its licence conditions, obtain a MISA investment licence (for foreign owners), register the company with the Ministry of Commerce, then get the municipal (Balady) licence for your premises in Makkah. Alpha Consultancy runs the whole sequence.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
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