How many trucking companies are in Saudi Arabia?
Road freight: light and heavy transport, refrigerated, furniture, vehicle and livestock haulage.
70.3K
active registrations list trucking & freight transport activities — 4.9% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
70,254 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list trucking & freight transport activities as of 16 September 2026 — 4.9% of all classified registrations, the 11th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
22,988 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +37% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (26,978), Jeddah (7,117), Najran (3,282) lead. Relative to its size, Wadi Al-Dawasir is the most concentrated: trucking companies make up 2.6× the share they hold nationally.
48.8% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 5,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 70,254
- 4.9% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 22,988
- +37% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 48.8%
- 34,302 of 70,254
- Median company capital
- SAR 5k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where trucking companies are registered
Column height: trucking companies by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh26,9781.3×
- Jeddah7,1170.9×
- Najran3,2821.7×
- Dammam3,1861.0×
- Makkah3,0950.9×
- Madinah1,7160.6×
- Hafar Al-Batin1,6401.3×
- Hail1,3951.2×
- Buraydah1,3640.8×
- Khobar1,2650.8×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Trucking & freight transport: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- Road freight transport33,244Activity code 492300
- Light freight transport15,411Activity code 492311
- Heavy goods and equipment transport7,964Activity code 492302
- Truck rental with driver4,474Activity code 492306
- Vehicle transport4,029Activity code 492307
- Livestock transport2,500Activity code 492304
- Furniture removals1,129Activity code 492303
- Refrigerated and frozen goods transport943Activity code 492301
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- Sole proprietorship35,90851.1%
- LLC33,32247.4%
- JSC7071%
- General partnership1280.2%
- SJSC870.1%
- Limited partnership580.1%
- Foreign branch27<0.1%
- GCC branch17<0.1%
Common questions
How many trucking companies are there in Saudi Arabia?
70,254 active commercial registrations list trucking & freight transport activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most trucking companies?
Riyadh, with 26,978 — 38.4% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 7,117.
Is the number of trucking companies growing?
22,988 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +37% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in trucking & freight transport in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
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.
Starting a business in trucking & freight transport?
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